Margaret Mead Quotes

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Margaret Mead

Profession : Scientist

Birth : December 16, 1901

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

Margaret Mead

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

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

Margaret Mead

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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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.

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Margaret Mead

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

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

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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

Margaret Mead

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

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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.

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We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

Margaret Mead

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead