“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.”
Change
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”
HomeAll Quotes by Margaret Mead
“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”
Environmental“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
Change“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.”
Love“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.”
Food“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“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”
History“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.”
Men“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.”
Family“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.”
Age“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”
Time“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
Funny“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”
Time“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”
Nature“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”
Dad“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”
History“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”
Home“I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.”
Respect“Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.”
Women“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”
Learning