Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead Copy Share
“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible.… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
