83 ordspråk av Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead föddes den December 16th 1901 och dog den 15 November 1978 - US anthropologist
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 Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. |
| No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps in |
| 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 in an impossible situation. |
| 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 have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law. |
| Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. |
| One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night. |
| One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night. |
| 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. |
| People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence. |
| Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. |
| Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. |
| Some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing. |
| Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. |
| Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. |
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