Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Margaret Mead Quotes Click here for Margaret Mead books "The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone." "Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man." "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." "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 guess." "Because of their age-long training in human relations— for that is what feminine intuition really is— women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise." "Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation." "I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce." "Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible." "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 less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place." "A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again." "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 economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice." "At times it may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good." "We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of their country." "I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings." "It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age." "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 one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests." "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 the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter." "What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things." "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 kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world." "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." "Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful." "It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly." "Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression." "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 others have developed and taught him." "Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited." "Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help." "Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire." "To cherish the life of the world." -Epitaph |
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