Quotes By Margaret Mead

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

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

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

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.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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.

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

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.

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

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

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

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

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 have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

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.

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.

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

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.

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