One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
MARGARET MEADNever believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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