Quotes from Margaret Mead

An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

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.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

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

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.

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.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

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

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

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

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

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

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

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

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

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