Margaret Mead on damage
Margaret Mead145 quotes“The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.”
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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.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead 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.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead 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.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead 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.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead
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More on damage
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
Lou HoltzLou Holtz We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de Chardin Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Jacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Jacques Yves CousteauJacques Yves Cousteau You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.
Conor McGregorConor McGregor I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.
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