Margaret Mead Quotes


The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone. - Margaret Mead


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


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. - Margaret Mead


The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth. - Margaret Mead


The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair. - Margaret Mead


The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist / this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul / a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. - Margaret Mead


Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. - Margaret Mead


Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. - Margaret Mead


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