If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEADIf the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
MARGARET MEADTo demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
MARGARET MEADHaving two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEADWe are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
MARGARET MEADLoving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
MARGARET MEADThere is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
MARGARET MEADThe negative cautions of science are never popular.
MARGARET MEADPeople are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
MARGARET MEADSooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
MARGARET MEADNever believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
MARGARET MEADIt is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
MARGARET MEADI suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
MARGARET MEADWe won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
MARGARET MEADSometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
MARGARET MEADManners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
MARGARET MEADBe who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
MARGARET MEAD