Margaret Mead Quotes - Page 2

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• A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, Thoughtful, People

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• We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.

  Margaret Mead

  Unique, Consciousness, Crisis

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.3, Transaction Publishers

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• ...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Respect, Animal

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• Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

  Margaret Mead

  Lying, Men, Humanity

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.250, Berghahn Books

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

  Margaret Mead

  Nature, Carpe Diem, Society

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• 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.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Impossible Situations, Support

  "Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

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

  Margaret Mead

  Motherhood, Fatherhood, Facts

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• 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.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

  Margaret Mead

  Passion, Serious, Individual

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• The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

  Margaret Mead

  Success, America, People

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

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Sisterhood, Want

  In Quote Magazine 15 June 1958

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• A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.

  Margaret Mead

  Order, Two, Promise

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• 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

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• 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

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• we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

  Margaret Mead

  Civilization, Evil, Way

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

  Margaret Mead

  Humanity, Together, Woven

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

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• Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

  Margaret Mead

  Love, Dance, Song

  "Margaret Mead: A Life". Book by Jane Howard, 1984.

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• 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

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• We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.

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  Sex, Race, Generations

  Margaret Mead (1963). “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”

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• Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

  Margaret Mead

  People, Generations, World

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• 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”

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• Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Past, People

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• My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

  Margaret Mead

  Learning, School, Grandmother

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• 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.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Acceptance

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

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• I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

  Margaret Mead

  Wise, Wisdom, Growing Up

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