We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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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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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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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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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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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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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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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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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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.
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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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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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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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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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