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.
MARGARET MEADThe 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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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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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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We 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.
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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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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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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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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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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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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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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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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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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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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.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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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 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.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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