The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not… — 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… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable… — 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
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
In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a… — 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
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships. — 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
In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman. — 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
Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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
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
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
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and… — 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
