“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
Change
“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”
TimeAll Quotes by Margaret Mead
“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“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”
History“Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.”
Women“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“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”
Home“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”
Nature“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”
Environmental“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.”
Men“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”
Time“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”
Dad“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.”
Age“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”
Women“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”
Family“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
Change“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”
History“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“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.”
Success“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