Margaret Mead

Bekannte Zitate von Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

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

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

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

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

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

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

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.

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