Margaret Mead quotes

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. (Margaret Mead)
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret Mead
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Margaret Mead
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
Margaret Mead
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
Margaret Mead
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret Mead
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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 doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever does.
Margaret Mead
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)
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
Margaret Mead
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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
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
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Margaret Mead
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
The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
Margaret Mead
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. (Margaret Mead)
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
Margaret Mead
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead
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
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Margaret Mead