we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in… — 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
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
Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the… — 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
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother… — 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
[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless… — 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
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. — 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
Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body… — 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
the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table,… — 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