Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing…when we save our children, we save ourselves
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.
Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that’s the only thing that ever has.
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn’t be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?
No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back.
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
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.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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 it in an impossible situation.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.