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Margaret Mead [1901-1978] American

Rank: 11
Scientist, Cultural Anthropologist

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s.

Age, Change, Environmental, Family, Learning, Women, Work, Dad, Fear, Funny, History, Home, Men, Relationship, Religion, Respect, Science, Society, Success, Thankful, Time

Quote	Tags	Rank
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.	Funny	41
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.	Change	102
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.	Family, Relationship	103
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.	Learning, Work	104
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.	Environmental, Society	105
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.	Change, Environmental	106
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.	Change	107
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.	Age, Religion	108
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.	Science	109
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.	History, Thankful, Time	110
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.		111
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.	Success	112
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.		113
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.	Men, Women	114
Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.		115
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.		116
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.	Women	117
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.	Respect	118
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.	Age, Learning, Work	119
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.		120
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.	Dad	121
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.		122
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.	Age	123
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.		124
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.		125
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.		126
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.		201
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.	Family	202
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.	Fear	203
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.		204
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.		205
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.		206
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.	Home	207
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.		208
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.		209
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.		210
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.		211
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.		212
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.		213
The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.		214
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.		215
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.		216
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.		217

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