Capacity Quotes by Margaret Mead

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

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

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

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

— Margaret Mead

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

— 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…

— Margaret Mead

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

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

— Margaret Mead

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

— Margaret Mead

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

— Margaret Mead

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

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

— Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

— Margaret Mead

“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

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