Margaret Mead Quotes

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

I cannot have any apprehensions during elections.

If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy.

Fear and monarchy pair nicely. But democracy means you have to work with people you may not like but you must still believe are your equals. And a fearful people never trust the other side.

I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.

We live by reposing trust in each other.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

Society is built upon trust.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

Give into love or live in fear.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away.