Margaret Mead Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, War

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

• The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.

  Margaret Mead

  War, Technology, Hands

• Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.

  Margaret Mead

  Running, War, Thinking

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

• Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, War, Ninety Nine

• Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

  Margaret Mead

  War, Warfare, Invention

  "Warfare Is Only an Invention - Not a Biological Necessity" (1940)

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

  Margaret Mead

  Life, War, Peacemaking

• All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

  Margaret Mead

  War, Age, Different

• War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

  Margaret Mead

  War, Invention

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.182, Berghahn Books

• 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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