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Margaret Mead Quotes | Quotes said by Margaret Mead

  • Margaret Mead Quote #1

    A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.


  • Margaret Mead Quote #2

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #3

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #4

    Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

  • Margaret Mead Quote #5

    As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

  • Margaret Mead Quote #6

    Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

  • Margaret Mead Quote #7

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #8

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #9

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #10

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #11

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #12

    I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

  • Margaret Mead Quote #13

    I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

  • Margaret Mead Quote #14

    I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?

  • Margaret Mead Quote #15

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #16

    Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  • Margaret Mead Quote #17

    It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

  • Margaret Mead Quote #18

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #19

    It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

  • Margaret Mead Quote #20

    L'éducation est un processus culturel (...) par lequel chaque nouvel individu est transformé en membre à part entière d'une société humaine particulière, partageant avec les autres membres une culture particulière.

  • Margaret Mead Quote #21

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #22

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #23

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #24

    Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

  • Margaret Mead Quote #25

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #26

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #27

    Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  • Margaret Mead Quote #28

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

  • Margaret Mead Quote #29

    The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

  • Margaret Mead Quote #30

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

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