“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
Change
“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.”
AgeAll Quotes by Margaret Mead
“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”
Time“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”
Home“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”
Time“Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.”
Women“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“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.”
Science“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”
History“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”
Environmental“I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.”
Respect“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“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”
History“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
Funny“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”
Nature“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”
Dad“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.”
Men“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“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”
Women“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.”
Fear“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”
Learning