Margaret Mead Quotes About Life
-
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
→ -
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
→ -
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
→ -
Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.
→ -
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
→ -
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
→
Margaret Mead
- Born: December 16, 1901
- Died: November 15, 1978
- Occupation: Cultural Anthropologist