It 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.
MARGARET MEADAn education not founded on Art will never succeed.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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 time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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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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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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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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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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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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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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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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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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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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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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