57 result(s) for Margaret Mead Quotes.
"Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions."
"The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and yet in which family life can take place."
"One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."
"Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary."
"We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet."
"When I was seven, I said to my mother, may I close the window? And she replied, why, do you want to change the world?"
"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and lsiten, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
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"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
"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."
"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
"Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view."
"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."
"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."
"As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own."
"Anthropology demands 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."
"I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like."
"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."
"No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back."
"Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible."
"I have a respect for logic, at least as this has been a tense part of my search for truth and a part of my struggle to choose or to found a church."
"The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over."
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"I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings."
"As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. someone had to be on the line and by degrees I found it was up to me."
"As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all of these combined."
"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in this world."
"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."
"Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need."
"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."
"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."
"Somehow we have been taught to believe that the ‘real world’ is the world as it was when the Bible was written."
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has."
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
"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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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has."
"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
"I was wise enough never to grow up while fooling most people into believing I had."
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."
"Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible."
"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost."
"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."
"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."
"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful."
"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive, and potentially orderly and constructive."
"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce."
"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."
"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."
"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."
"We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems."
"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."
"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."
"Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire."
"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."
"The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind."
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