Margaret Mead Quotes

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.

Margaret Mead

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.

Margaret Mead

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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.

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

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

Margaret Mead

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.

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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

Margaret Mead

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

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