Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
MARGARET MEADWE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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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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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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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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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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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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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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