Quote

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

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
Elders
Experiencing
Generations
Young

More quotes by Margaret Mead

Image
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
Margaret Mead
Image
War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
Margaret Mead
Image
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
Margaret Mead
Image
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
Margaret Mead
Image
In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
Margaret Mead
Image
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style 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.
Margaret Mead
Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
Margaret Mead
Image
If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
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
In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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
Maleness in America is not absolutely defined it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.
Margaret Mead
Image
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
Margaret Mead
Image
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
Margaret Mead
Image
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
Margaret Mead
Image
The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.
Margaret Mead
Image
Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
Margaret Mead
Image
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead
Image
I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw
Margaret Mead
Image
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Margaret Mead