Margaret Mead Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality.

  Margaret Mead

  Dream, Fighting, Views

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

• 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

  Children, Sleep, Independent

  "Growing Old in America". Grace Hechinger, Family Circle Magazine, July 25, 1977.

• Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Real, War, Fighting

  "Remarks about the Military Draft" by Margaret Mead (June 1968) as quoted in "Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views" edited by Rhoda Metraux (pp. 35-36), 1979.

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