Quotes from 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
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
- Margaret Mead
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
- Margaret Mead
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
- 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
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
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
- Margaret Mead
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
- Margaret Mead
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
- Margaret Mead