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1 " Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. "
― Margaret Mead
2 " There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves "
3 " It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet. "
4 " Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. "
5 " 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. "
6 " I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. "
7 " Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. "
8 " One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it. "
9 " I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old? "
10 " It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. "
11 " 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. "
12 " The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers. "
13 " I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. "
14 " 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. "
15 " For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "
16 " Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. "
17 " One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. "
18 " We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. "
19 " We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who is to choose wisely must be healthy in mind and body. The children must be taught how to think, not what to think. "
― Margaret Mead , Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
20 " One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic] "
