Margaret Mead

Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may…

— Margaret Mead

Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

— Margaret Mead

I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the…

— Margaret Mead

The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied…

— Margaret Mead

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

— Margaret Mead

We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that…

— Margaret Mead

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

— Margaret Mead

to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits…

— Margaret Mead

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

— Margaret Mead

“There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing…

— Margaret Mead

Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh…

— Margaret Mead

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent…

— Margaret Mead

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever…

— 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