To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
MARGARET MEADThe time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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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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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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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 MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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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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