Margaret Mead

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.

age


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.

age


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.

age


Margaret Mead

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

change


Margaret Mead

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

change


Margaret Mead

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

change


Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

dad


Margaret Mead

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

environmental


Margaret Mead

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

environmental


Margaret Mead

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

family


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.

family


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.

fear


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.

food


Margaret Mead

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

funny


Margaret Mead

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

history


Margaret Mead

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

history


Margaret Mead

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

home


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.

learning


Margaret Mead

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

learning


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.

love


Margaret Mead

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

men


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