A Quote by Margaret Mead

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
American - Scientist
December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978

I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.

Lurlene McDaniel

Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world.

Phyllis Chesler

You don't have to either choose to save the world or become a sellout. I say to people, "Listen dude, how can you save the world if you can't even save yourself? Why don't you try to affect one person's life who's in your life, and that would be historic."

Immortal Technique

A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.

Craig Venter

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

Ida B. Wells

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

Ida B. Wells

Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.

Vyasa

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

Joseph Campbell

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

Benjamin Hoff

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

Marco Rubio

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.

Ron Padgett

You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

Guillaume Musso

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

George Carlin

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

Juliet Marillier

A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.

Kate Clinton

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