Nature of man Quotes by Margaret Mead

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

— Margaret Mead

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

— Margaret Mead

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

— 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

We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the…

— Margaret Mead

the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have…

— 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

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

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

— 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

...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in…

— 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