Margaret Mead Quotes

Margaret Mead (49)

Birth:	16th December, 1901
Death:	15th November, 1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Anthropologist

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• People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

   

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  Topics in America
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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Committed, Change

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

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  Topics in Society

• 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.

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  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Invoking, Introspective, Him, Any, Adult, His, Own, Parents, Teachers, Thinks, Become, Understand, Before, Old, Long, Lost

• Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mediocrity, Women, Men

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Evil

• Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need

• 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.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Need

• As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Travel

• Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Like

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• 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.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Prayer

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

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

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in History

  Tags in Time

• The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberals, Dreams

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Change

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

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• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Guess

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Action

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

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Adulthood