Margaret Mead quotes

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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.

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.