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One Quotes by Margaret Mead
- 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.
- Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to…
- In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one…
- Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and…
- One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong…
- The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die…
- If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are…
- Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill,…
- Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to…
- Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only…
- There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
- 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…
- 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…
- It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to…
- The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
- 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…
- An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift
- No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have…
- 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 of…
- One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
- As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser thanhe who has never left his owndoorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle