Margaret Mead Quotes

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get a...

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of ...

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has...

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective,...

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only th...

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment...

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the ...

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown......

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the w...

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to...

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ...

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have...

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world;...

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but ...

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at ...

I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow ...

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must ha...

In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as an...

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are gro...

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With n...

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder...

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or ...

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by ...

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ou...

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values a...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i...

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if t...

A great deal of what I say just leaves me open, I suppose, to a vast amount of misunderstanding. A g...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's ...

We make our own criminals and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It...

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate inform...