Margaret Mead Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

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• Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

  Margaret Mead

  Freedom, Passion, Government

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Michael S. Matthews, Ph.D. and Jaime A. Castellano, Ed.D. "Talent Development for English Language Learners: Identifying and Developing Potential", November 15, 2013.

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• Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Groups, World, Underestimate

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• Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Brain, Attention, World

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• we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

  Margaret Mead

  Civilization, Evil, Way

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• For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

  Margaret Mead

  Conversation, Evolve, Humans

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• We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Race, Class

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• Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

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  Humanity, Together, Woven

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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

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  Children, Teaching, Simple

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Believe, Successful

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• What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Commitment, Confusion

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in "Teaching Music Through Performance In Band, Volume 3" edited by Larry Blocher, Eugene Corporon, Ray Cramer, Tim Lautzeheiser, and others (p. 13), 2000.

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• An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

  Margaret Mead

  Culture, Humans, Ideals

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• There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

  Margaret Mead

  Zest, World, Greater Power

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• No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Escaping, Population

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• Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

  Margaret Mead

  Lying, Men, Humanity

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.250, Berghahn Books

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

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  Nature, Carpe Diem, Society

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• 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.

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  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Children, Future

  "The Energy Crisis - Why Our World Will Never Again Be the Same". Margaret Mead, "Redbook", 1974, later quoted in Hugh Nash "Progress As If Survival Mattered: A Handbook For A Conserver Society" (p. 166), 1977.

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• A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.

  Margaret Mead

  Order, Two, Promise

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• WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

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  Life, War, Peacemaking

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• ...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.

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  Beautiful, Respect, Animal

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• 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.

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  Arrogance, Self Control, Culture

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.152, Berghahn Books

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• The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, Adults

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Anita E. Woolfolk "Educational Psychology" (p. 212), 1980.

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