You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. — 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
I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman. And as I had my father's kind of mind-which… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. ~Margaret… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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 Image
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
