Quotes by Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Mead

L'éducation est un processus culturel (...) par lequel chaque nouvel individu est transformé en membre à part entière d'une société humaine particulière, partageant avec les autres membres une culture particulière.

Margaret Mead

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

Margaret Mead

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have...

Margaret Mead

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

Margaret Mead

There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

Margaret Mead

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be ...

Margaret Mead

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

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

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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.

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

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

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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

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

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

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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.

Margaret Mead

Author Bio

  • NameMargaret Mead
  • DescriptionAmerican anthropologist
  • BornDecember 16, 1901
  • DiedNovember 15, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionCurator; Anthropologist
  • AwardsPresidential Medal Of Freedom; Kalinga Prize; William Procter Prize For Scientific Achievement; National Women's Hall Of Fame