Margaret Mead Quotes

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw — Margaret Mead

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

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals. — Margaret Mead

There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing. — Margaret Mead

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. — Margaret Mead

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. — Margaret Mead

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. — Margaret Mead

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it? — Margaret Mead

We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. — Margaret Mead

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want. — Margaret Mead

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

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach. — Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead has said, Hell is always more convincing than Heaven.48 — P.D. Smith

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. — Margaret Mead

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. — Margaret Mead

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. — Margaret Mead

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived. — Margaret Mead

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

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. — Margaret Mead

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly ... — Margaret Mead

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman. — Margaret Mead

Humanity ... lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead

We have nowhere else to go ... this is all we have. — Margaret Mead

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young. — Margaret Mead

Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate. — Margaret Mead

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children. — Margaret Mead

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them. — Margaret Mead

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

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes. — Margaret Mead

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. — Margaret Mead

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

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. — Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. — Margaret Mead

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. — Margaret Mead

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves. — Margaret Mead

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. — Margaret Mead

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. — Margaret Mead

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

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

An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists. — Margaret Mead

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. — Margaret Mead

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day. — Margaret Mead

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present. — Margaret Mead

Women have an important contribution to make. — Margaret Mead

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety. — Margaret Mead

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR. — Margaret Mead

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. — Margaret Mead

An education not founded on Art will never succeed. — Margaret Mead

My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school. — Margaret Mead

The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children. — Margaret Mead

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

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind. — Margaret Mead

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin. — Margaret Mead

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. — Margaret Mead

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. — Margaret Mead

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists. — Margaret Mead

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again. — Margaret Mead

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency. — Margaret Mead

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything. — Margaret Mead

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. — Margaret Mead

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough. — Margaret Mead

You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel. — Margaret Mead

You are totally unique. Just like everyone else. — Margaret Mead

The mind is not sex-typed. — Margaret Mead

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay. — Margaret Mead

I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had. — Margaret Mead

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

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on. — Margaret Mead

I'm unique just like everyone else — Margaret Mead

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention. — Margaret Mead

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships. — Margaret Mead

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions. — Margaret Mead

There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest. — Margaret Mead

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. — Margaret Mead

In all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman. — Margaret Mead

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

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. — Margaret Mead

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

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior. — Margaret Mead

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely. — Margaret Mead

We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together. — Margaret Mead

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

Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can. — Margaret Mead

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person. — Margaret Mead

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being. — Margaret Mead

We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties. (1976 — Margaret Mead

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift — Margaret Mead

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. — Margaret Mead

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world. — Margaret Mead

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses. — Margaret Mead

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water. — Margaret Mead

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. — Margaret Mead

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature. — Margaret Mead

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties. — Margaret Mead

We must have ... a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust. — Margaret Mead

I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings. — Margaret Mead

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. — Margaret Mead

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. — Margaret Mead

I'm always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either. — Margaret Stohl

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity. — Margaret Mead