Quotes by Margaret Mead

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

“Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.”

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

“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”

“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.”

“Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible”

“I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had”

“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own”

“WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.”

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

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

It is easier to change a mans religion than to change his diet.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

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.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, Does he have to be old?

Having someone wonder where you are when you dont come home at night is a very old human need.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.