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.
MARGARET MEADIf 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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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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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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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.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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