Margaret Mead Quotes

• Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.

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• A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

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• Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

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• What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

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• The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

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• Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

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

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• We have nowhere else to go… this is all we have.

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• We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

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• The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

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• The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.

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• Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.

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• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

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• Man’s role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

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• It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

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• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

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• I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

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• I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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

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• Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

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Margaret Mead (53)

Birth:	16th December, 1901
Death:	15th November, 1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Anthropologist

About

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.

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