If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may… — 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
