Quote

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Margaret Mead

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Social
Recognize
Weave
Place
Gift
Richer
Women
Achieve
Fitting
Find
Rich
Arbitrary
Human
Values
Fabric
Samoa
Humans
Less
Diverse
Contrasting
Whole
History
Tolerance
Gamut
Must
Culture
Diversity
Potentialities

More quotes by Margaret Mead

Image
I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.
Margaret Mead
Image
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
Margaret Mead
Image
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
Margaret Mead
Image
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
Margaret Mead
Image
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
Margaret Mead
Image
Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.
Margaret Mead
Image
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.
Margaret Mead
Image
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead
Image
All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
Margaret Mead
Image
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
Image
In each age there is a series of pressing questions which must be asked and answered. On the correctness of the questions depends the survival of those who ask on the quality of the answers depends the quality of the life those survivors will lead.
Margaret Mead
Image
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
Margaret Mead
Image
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
Margaret Mead
Image
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret Mead
Image
[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.
Margaret Mead
Image
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.
Margaret Mead
Image
The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.
Margaret Mead
Image
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
Margaret Mead
Image
Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.
Margaret Mead
Image
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
Margaret Mead