Margaret Mead Quotes
An American cultural anthropologist.
(1901 - 1978)
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
[Change]
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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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.
[Able]
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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.
[Age]
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Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
[Women]
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
[Human Nature]
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.
[Success]
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
[Work]
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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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.
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