Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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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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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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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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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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