Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
MARGARET MEADDon’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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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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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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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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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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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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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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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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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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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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Women have an important contribution to make.
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