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Margaret Mead Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american scientist Margaret Mead on topics like people, world, children

  • Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everybody else.

    — Margaret Mead on wisdom
    120
  • Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

    — Margaret Mead on funny
    54
  • Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

    — Margaret Mead on environmental
    22
  • Margaret Mead quote Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

    Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

    — Margaret Mead
    29
  • I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

    — Margaret Mead on marriage
    20
  • One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

    — Margaret Mead on home
    19
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  • 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 on artificial
    13
  • Margaret Mead quote Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

    Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

    — Margaret Mead
    26
  • We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

    — Margaret Mead on conservation
    10
  • Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

    — Margaret Mead on envy
    4
  • Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

    — Margaret Mead on children
    4
  • Margaret Mead quote Never doubt a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world

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

    — Margaret Mead
    19
  • What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

    — Margaret Mead on things
    3
  • 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 on learning
    3
  • Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

    — Margaret Mead on century
    3
  • About Margaret Mead

    Name Margaret Mead
    Quotes 65 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Scientist
    Birthday October 16
    About Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the '60s and '70s as a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and western life but also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist.
    Top topics people, world, children, change, life
  • 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 on hell
    2
  • A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

    Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

    — Margaret Mead on change
    1
  • 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 on family
    1
  • Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

    — Margaret Mead on behaviors
    1
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  • We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

    — Margaret Mead on nowhere
    1
  • 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 on admit
    1
  • The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

    — Margaret Mead on air
    1
  • For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

    — Margaret Mead on media
    1
  • 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 on children
    1
  • Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

    — Margaret Mead on retirement
    1
  • Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

    — Margaret Mead on actions
    0
  • Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible.

    — Margaret Mead on women
    0
  • 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 on age
    0
  • 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 on respect
    0
  • Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.

    For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

    — Margaret Mead on change
    0
  • Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

    — Margaret Mead on role
    0
  • Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

    — Margaret Mead on thankful
    0
  • The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

    — Margaret Mead on altogether
    0
  • Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

    — Margaret Mead on independence
    0
  • Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

    — Margaret Mead on women
    0
  • Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

    — Margaret Mead on dad
    0
  • Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

    — Margaret Mead on decency
    0
  • If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

    — Margaret Mead on purpose
    0
  • Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?

    — Margaret Mead on women
    0
  • Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

    — Margaret Mead on women
    0
  • Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

    — Margaret Mead on family
    0
  • Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

    — Margaret Mead on science
    0
  • I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

    — Margaret Mead on wise
    0
  • The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

    — Margaret Mead on adult
    0
  • It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

    — Margaret Mead on accept
    0
  • If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

    — Margaret Mead on age
    0
  • The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

    — Margaret Mead on marriage
    0
  • Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

    — Margaret Mead on nature
    0
  • Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

    — Margaret Mead on night
    0
  • Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

    — Margaret Mead on time
    0
  • 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 on work
    0
  • Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

    — Margaret Mead on capacity
    0
  • People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

    — Margaret Mead on america
    0
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