Margaret Mead Quotes

Quotes about:

• 

  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

  240 Copy quote
• 

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

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Children

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

  140 Copy quote

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

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

  265 Copy quote

• 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.

  81 Copy quote

• All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

  Margaret Mead

  Passion, Serious, Individual

  8 Copy quote

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

  Margaret Mead

  Groups, World, Underestimate

  27 Copy quote

• 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

  12 Copy quote

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

  Margaret Mead

  Conversation, Evolve, Humans

  38 Copy quote

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

  Margaret Mead

  Humanity, Together, Woven

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

  29 Copy quote

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

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Teaching, Simple

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

  21 Copy quote

• 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

  22 Copy quote

• 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.

  54 Copy quote

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

  Margaret Mead

  Zest, World, Greater Power

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

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

  Margaret Mead

  Culture, Humans, Ideals

  30 Copy quote

• 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

  Religious, Animal, Hands

  15 Copy quote

• 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

  64 Copy quote

• 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

  Fear, Fog, Punishment

  45 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Moving

  5 Copy quote

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

  Margaret Mead

  Life, War, Peacemaking

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  63 Copy quote

• 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

  50 Copy quote

• 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

  Arrogance, Self Control, Culture

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

  56 Copy quote

Page 1 of 12

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin