Humans Quotes by Margaret Mead

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

— Margaret Mead

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

— Margaret Mead

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

— Margaret Mead

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

— Margaret Mead

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

— Margaret Mead

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

— Margaret Mead

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

— Margaret Mead

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

— Margaret Mead

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

— 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

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach…

— Margaret Mead

Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like…

— Margaret Mead

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human…

— Margaret Mead

Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those…

— Margaret Mead

The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and…

— Margaret Mead

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class…

— 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

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

— Margaret Mead

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

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

— Margaret Mead

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs…

— Margaret Mead

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build…

— Margaret Mead

Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males…

— 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 prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not…

— Margaret Mead

Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers…

— Margaret Mead

In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a…

— 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

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

— 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

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American…

— 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

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

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution…

— 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

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can…

— Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central…

— Margaret Mead

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

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

— Margaret Mead