It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
MARGARET MEADThe negative cautions of science are never popular.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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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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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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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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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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