Margaret Mead Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.

  Margaret Mead

  Business, Men, Artist

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

• The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Thinking, Capacity To Love

  Redbook Magazine, 1975.

• A society which is clamouring 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.

  Margaret Mead

  Philosophy, Giving, Choices

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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