Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."
49 Quotes
"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."
Margaret Mead
"I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like."
Margaret Mead
"Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves."
Margaret Mead
"I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings."
Margaret Mead
"There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another."
Margaret Mead
"In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists."
Margaret Mead
"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"We make our own criminals and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being."
Margaret Mead
"You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds."
Margaret Mead
"Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity."
Margaret Mead
"No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back."
Margaret Mead
"When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?"
Margaret Mead
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."
Margaret Mead
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
Margaret Mead
"The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers."
Margaret Mead
"There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."
Margaret Mead
"Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need."
Margaret Mead
"“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”"
Margaret Mead
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