Margaret Mead Quotes

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.

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

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.

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

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

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

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.

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.

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

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

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

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

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.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

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

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.