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 MEADWe will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
-
-
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
MARGARET MEAD -
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
MARGARET MEAD -
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
MARGARET MEAD -
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
MARGARET MEAD -
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.
MARGARET MEAD -
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
MARGARET MEAD -
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
MARGARET MEAD -
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
MARGARET MEAD -
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.
MARGARET MEAD -
Women have an important contribution to make.
MARGARET MEAD -
In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
MARGARET MEAD -
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
MARGARET 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 MEAD -
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
MARGARET MEAD -
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
MARGARET MEAD