Margaret Mead Quotes

A society which is clamouring 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.

Margaret Mead

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• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Men
  • War
  • Nature

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • You
  • Peace
  • Hands

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Society
  • Political

• You know in the West they support realistic forces.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • You
  • Know
  • Support

• You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Help
  • Society
  • You

• Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Peace
  • Israel

• When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • May
  • Society
  • Lost

• The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Society
  • Law
  • Back

• What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Society
  • Talk
  • Capitalism

• As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Peace
  • Mom

• I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Peace
  • Question
  • Achieve

• If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Peace
  • Media
  • Bring

• The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Power
  • Peace
  • Economic

• Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Family
  • Home
  • Peace

• Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.

  

  Adrian Edmondson

• I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • Life
  • Believe

• I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.

  

  Charles de Gaulle

• If you wanted to control the nation's manufacturing, commerce, finance, transportation and natural resources, you would need only to control the apex, the power pinnacle, of an all-powerful SOCIALIST government. Then you would have a monopoly and could squeeze out all your competitors. If you wanted a national monopoly, you must control a national socialist government. If you want a worldwide monopoly, you must control a world socialist government. That is what the game is all about. "Communism" is not a movement of the downtrodden masses but is a movement created, manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in order to gain control over the world ...

  

  Gary Allan
  • World
  • Power
  • Game

• A society which is clamouring 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.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Society
  • Peace