Margaret Mead Quotes
61 Margaret Mead quotes:
"Some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing."
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"Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts, and varying interests."
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
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"I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed."
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"The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone"
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"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in this world"
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"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."
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"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."
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"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."
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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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"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."
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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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"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."
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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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"Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."
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"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put in an impossible situation."
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"The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth"
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"The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer."
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"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."
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"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."
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