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
Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public… — 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
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
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
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing… — 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
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh… — 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
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