Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in terms of heredity, whether it be of race, or sex, or class. Every social institution which teaches human beings to cringe to those above and step on those below must be replaced by institutions which teach people to look each other straight in the face.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Equality, Race

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.161, Berghahn Books

  8 Copy quote

• where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Children, Opportunity

  12 Copy quote

• Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

  Margaret Mead

  Order, Want, What You Want

  5 Copy quote

• human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

  Margaret Mead

  Suffering, Identity, Culture

  Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

  12 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

• There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

  Margaret Mead

  Spouse, Communicate, Persons

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  10 Copy quote

• All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

  Margaret Mead

  Passion, Serious, Individual

  8 Copy quote

• Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

  Margaret Mead

  Passion, Government, Problem

  8 Copy quote

• To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.

  Margaret Mead

  Hate, Love Is, Demand

  Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.122, Basic Books

  13 Copy quote

• Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

  Margaret Mead

  Government, Differences, Passionate

  20 Copy quote

• Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

  31 Copy quote

• If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

  Margaret Mead

  Past, People, Support

  7 Copy quote

• 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”

  17 Copy quote

• I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder, that which one would not have been able to guess.

  Margaret Mead

  Science, Air, Listening

  Preface of Margaret Mead "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies" (p. 26), 1950 edition.

  53 Copy quote

• The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Art, School

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

  31 Copy quote

• Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

  Margaret Mead

  Manners

  Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.14, Basic Books

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  Truth, Believe, Add

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 9 Aug. 1964

  16 Copy quote

• In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, Life Changing

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

  17 Copy quote

• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Relationship, Family

  34 Copy quote

• Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

  Margaret Mead

  Flesh, Stuff, Injustice

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

  32 Copy quote

• 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

  Thinking, People, Political

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1980). “Aspects of the Present”, William Morrow

  5 Copy quote

• Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

  Margaret Mead

  Motherhood, Fatherhood, Facts

  11 Copy quote

• the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Responsibility, People

  7 Copy quote

• Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

  Margaret Mead

  Groups, Poverty, Discrimination

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

  20 Copy quote

Page 3 of 12

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin