Quotes from Margaret Mead
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
— Margaret Mead
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
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
— 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
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
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
— Margaret Mead
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
— Margaret Mead
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
— Margaret Mead
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
— Margaret Mead
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
— Margaret Mead
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
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
— Margaret Mead