Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. – Margaret Mead
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. – Margaret Mead
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you dont agree with or like. – Margaret Mead
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. – Margaret Mead
If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if ones sexuality is as intrinsic a part of ones identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. – Jon Meacham