Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible. — 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
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
the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within… — 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
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
Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to… — 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
...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 Copy Share Image
most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study… — 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
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
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on… — 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
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can. — 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
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
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
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
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
As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young… — 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
