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.
MARGARET MEADWhat is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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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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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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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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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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We 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.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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