[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew. Margaret Mead More Quotes by Margaret Mead More Quotes From Margaret Mead Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as a part of anthropological methods, the need for photographers with a disciplined knowledge of anthropology and for anthropologists with training in photography has increased. We expect that in the near future sophisticated training in photography will be a requirement for all anthropologists. (1962) Margaret Mead training photography moving Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other. Margaret Mead friends clever beautiful Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior. Margaret Mead running war thinking What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us. Margaret Mead leisure stills feels When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened. Margaret Mead married grief trying where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves. Margaret Mead family opportunity children Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly. Margaret Mead manners 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 Margaret Mead life-changing growing-up children we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life. Margaret Mead evil civilization way We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex. Margaret Mead masculine-and-feminine personality sex We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them. Margaret Mead generations race sex 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. Margaret Mead dance song love Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved. Margaret Mead learning educational children Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. Margaret Mead sleep sex moving Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all. Margaret Mead holy-days earth-day historical 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. Margaret Mead fashion ambition dream The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses. Margaret Mead wells weakness cities Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything. Margaret Mead males women female You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like. Margaret Mead smell Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. Margaret Mead bad-ass women time
