Quotes by Margaret Mead

The following are quotes from Margaret Mead:

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.

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

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.

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

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

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

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

The mind is not sex-typed.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Women want medicore men. and men are working hard to become as medicore as possible.

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