Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Quote by Margaret Mead
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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Margaret Mead Quotes
- 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.
- Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
- I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
- Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- 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.
- Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
- Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
- Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
- I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
- Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Words may be common but the thought conveyed by those words are always unique.
- Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
- Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
- God speaks to us through his language and our language but we only listen to our language