Quotes By Margaret Mead

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

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

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

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

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

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.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.