Margaret Mead Quotes

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!"
-Margaret Mead

"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had."
-Margaret Mead in Wisdom quotes.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-Margaret Mead

"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."
-Margaret Mead in Work quotes.

"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

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night."
-Margaret Mead in Needs quotes.

"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."
-Margaret Mead in Children quotes.

"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."
-Margaret Mead

"As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own."
-Margaret Mead in Travel quotes.

"Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention."
-Margaret Mead

"Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible."
-Margaret Mead

"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."
-Margaret Mead

"No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded."
-Margaret Mead

"Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man."
-Margaret Mead