"No matter how many communes anybody invents, the……" — Margaret Mead
"No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back."
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162 Quotes by Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead has 162 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which…
- Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
- We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women,…
- People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or…
- The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and…
- We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of…
- In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
- EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept…
- To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to…
- It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and…
- The negative cautions of science are never popular.
- You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.