Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
MARGARET MEADTo demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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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.
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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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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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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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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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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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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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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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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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