Margaret Mead Famous Quotes
"Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire."
"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."
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
"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."
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.
"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."
"The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone."
The mind is not sex-typed.
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 Quotations
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide
"One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."
Blaise Pascal
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
Kin Hubbard
"Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners."
Josh Billings
"The other day I got out my can opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, 'What am I doing'"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be."
Marquis de Sade
Let the sun shine in.
AntiWar Poster
"What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life."
Albert Einstein