Margaret Mead Quotes

Margaret Mead Quotes.

The most intractable problem today is not pollution or

The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
Margaret Mead
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
Margaret Mead
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
Margaret Mead
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
Margaret Mead
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for ne

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.
Margaret Mead
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
Margaret Mead
We have nowhere else to go… this is all we have.
Margaret Mead
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
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
Margaret Mead
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDIN

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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