Human beings Quotes by Margaret Mead

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

— Margaret Mead

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

— Margaret Mead

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

— Margaret Mead

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

— Margaret Mead

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has…

— Margaret Mead

most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control…

— Margaret Mead

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was…

— Margaret Mead

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

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

The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human…

— Margaret Mead

No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding…

— Margaret Mead

Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in…

— Margaret Mead

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has…

— Margaret Mead

Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity…

— Margaret Mead

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