353 Quotes by Margaret Mead

Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those who are wrong. The first blow dealt to the enemy’s children will sign the death warrant of our own.

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.

Man’s role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.

It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.

And as I had my father’s kind of mind-which was also his mother’s-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

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

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.