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Society Quotes by Margaret Mead
- American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is…
- We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step…
- This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill…
- We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex…
- 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…
- The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
- In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of…
- We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
- Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society…
- 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…
- No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
- A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of…
- We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society…
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi