The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman. — 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
most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings 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
where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity… — 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
