For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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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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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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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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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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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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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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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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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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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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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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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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