Margaret Mead Quotes

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

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.

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

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

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.

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

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

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

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

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

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Humanity . . . lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

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

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