Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
MARGARET MEADIt was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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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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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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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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There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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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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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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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.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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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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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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