For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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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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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Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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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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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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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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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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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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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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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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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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