Margaret Mead

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

— Margaret Mead

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

— Margaret Mead

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.

— Margaret Mead

You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.

— Margaret Mead

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

— Margaret Mead

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

— Margaret Mead

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

— Margaret Mead

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an…

— Margaret Mead

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups…

— Margaret Mead

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

— Margaret Mead

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human…

— Margaret Mead

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the…

— Margaret Mead

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it…

— Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever…

— Margaret Mead

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class…

— Margaret Mead

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really…

— Margaret Mead

I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the…

— Margaret Mead

In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions…

— Margaret Mead

Just as the difference in height between males is no longer a realistic issue, now that lawsuits have been substituted for hand-to-hand…

— Margaret Mead

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike…

— Margaret Mead

The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied…

— Margaret Mead

“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be…

— Margaret Mead

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and…

— Margaret Mead

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

— Margaret Mead

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone

— Margaret Mead

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

— Margaret Mead

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

— Margaret Mead

I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

— Margaret Mead

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

— Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

— Margaret Mead

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

— Margaret Mead

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

— Margaret Mead

We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.

— Margaret Mead

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

— Margaret Mead

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

— Margaret Mead

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

— Margaret Mead

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

— Margaret Mead

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no…

— Margaret Mead

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it…

— Margaret Mead