Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
MARGARET MEADOur 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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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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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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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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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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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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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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