Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity… — 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
EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly… — 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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