All Margaret Mead Quotes
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Margaret Mead
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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.
Margaret Mead
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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.
Margaret Mead
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Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Margaret Mead
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
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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.
Margaret Mead
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Margaret Mead
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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.
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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
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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.
Margaret Mead
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
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