One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
Margaret Mead Quotes
The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does.
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate.
In almost any society I think, the quality of the non-conformists is like to be as good as that of the conformists.
I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast… In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.
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.
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals […]
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.
So longstanding and so rapid have been these processes of change that expectation of change and anxiety about change have been built into our character as a people.
