Margaret Mead on caution
Margaret Mead145 quotes“The negative cautions of science are never popular.”
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead 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.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Women have an important contribution to make.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on caution
Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
Al SharptonAl Sharpton Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.
AnonymousAnonymous A lot of people characterize women as more cautious. I don’t think that’s an inappropriate characterization, but that’s not a natural thing we’re born with, it’s something that comes about.
Abigail TarttelinAbigail Tarttelin Make haste cautiously.
AugustusAugustus Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller
