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Margaret Mead4 quotes
Warfare... Is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. — Margaret Mead · 1940Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother. — Margaret Mead · 1962Historically our own culture has relied for the creation of rich and contrasting values upon many artificial distinctions, the most striking of which is sex...If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. — Margaret Mead · 1935As the traveller who has been once from home is wiser than he who has never left his own door step, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinise more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. — Margaret Mead · 1928Ezra Pound3 quotes
Died some, pro patria,
Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'…
Walked eye-deep in hell
Believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
Came home, home to a lie. — Ezra Pound · 1920All great art is born of the metropolis. — Ezra Pound · 1913There died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization. — Ezra Pound · 1920Will Smith2 quotes
Roses are red, violets are blue, Jazz and I are black, but Carlton what are you? — Will Smith · 1990Have you always been this stuck up, or did it take, like, years of practice? — Will Smith · 1991A.S.W. Rosenbach1 quote
After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all. — A.S.W. Rosenbach · 1936Ethel Barrymore1 quote
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros. — Ethel Barrymore · 1953Fred Rodell1 quote
The Law is the killy-loo bird of the sciences. The killy-loo, of course, was the bird that insisted on flying backward because it didn't care where it was going but was mightily interested in where it had been... Only The Law, inexorably devoted to all its most ancient principles and precedents, makes a vice of innovation and a virtue of hoariness. — Fred Rodell · 1939Frederick Winslow Taylor1 quote
In the past the man has been first. In the future the System must be first. — Frederick Winslow Taylor · 1911Henry George1 quote
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. — Henry George · 1879Marian Anderson1 quote
Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. — Marian Anderson · 1960Noam Chomsky1 quote
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. — Noam Chomsky · 1995Paul Ralph Ehrlich1 quote
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. — Paul Ralph Ehrlich · 1971Roy Campanella1 quote
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. — Roy Campanella · 1995William Wrigley Jr.1 quote
Business is built by men who care-care enough to disagree, fight it out to a finish, get facts. When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary. — William Wrigley Jr. · 1931