Margaret Mead Quotes

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
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
Margaret Mead
I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.
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
In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
We make our own criminals and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
Margaret Mead
You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.
Margaret Mead
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
In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
We make our own criminals and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.
Margaret Mead
You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.
Margaret Mead
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
No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back.
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
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
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead
A great deal of what I say just leaves me open, I suppose, to a vast amount of misunderstanding. A great deal of what I say is based on an assumption which I hold and don’t always state. You know my fury about people is based precisely on the fact that I consider them to be responsible, moral creatures who so often do not act that way. But I am not surprised when they do. I am not that wretched a pessimist, and I wouldn’t sound the way I sound if I did not expect what I expect from human beings, if I didn’t have some ultimate faith and love, faith in them and love for them. You see, I am a human being too, and I have no right to stand in judgment of the world as though I am not a part of it. What I am demanding of other people is what I am demanding of myself.'- James Baldwin
Margaret Mead
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
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
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
Margaret Mead
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?
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
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
Margaret Mead
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret Mead
It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
Margaret Mead
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead