If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed.… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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