353 Quotes by Margaret Mead

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated people have more ways to make friends... . In England, for instance, you find everyone in your class has read the same books. Here, people grope for something in common-like a newly engaged girl who came to me and said, "It's absolutely wonderful! His uncle and my cousin were on the same football team.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

I don’t consider my marriages as failures! It’s idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it’s failed.

Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

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

Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.