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Human Quotes by Margaret Mead
- Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
- EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys,…
- From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.
- Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any…
- What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
- We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
- When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model…
- Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of…
- For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
- Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are…
- Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what…
- Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to…
- The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
- The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he…
- Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
- One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a…
- I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
- Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
- An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift
- Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong