Social Quotes by Margaret Mead

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

— Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

— Margaret Mead

All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

— Margaret Mead

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

— Margaret Mead

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

— Margaret Mead

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the…

— Margaret Mead

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

— Margaret Mead

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through…

— Margaret Mead

Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in…

— Margaret Mead

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs…

— Margaret Mead

Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for…

— Margaret Mead

You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation…

— Margaret Mead

The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the…

— Margaret Mead

The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the…

— Margaret Mead

The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to…

— Margaret Mead