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
Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young… — 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 Image
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
