Quotes from Margaret Mead
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.
- Margaret Mead
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
- Margaret Mead
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
- Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
- 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
Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
- Margaret Mead
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
- Margaret Mead
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
- Margaret Mead
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
- Margaret Mead
[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
- Margaret Mead
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
- Margaret Mead