Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
MARGARET MEADInjustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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It 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.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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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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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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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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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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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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