Margaret Mead Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.
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.
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
The need to find meaning ... is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
Today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
It used to be when we said, 'til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
We came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing ... when we save our children, we save ourselves
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly ...
And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.