black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.

Margaret Mead

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
MARGARET MEAD

Communication Himself Lonely Person
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Change People Small Thinking World
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
MARGARET MEAD

Competition Relationship Sister Strong
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
MARGARET MEAD

Act Biology Human Myself Realize
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
MARGARET MEAD

Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
MARGARET MEAD

Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
MARGARET MEAD

Animal Competition People
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
MARGARET MEAD

Education Goodness Myself Possible School
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
MARGARET MEAD

Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
MARGARET MEAD

Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
MARGARET MEAD

Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
MARGARET MEAD

Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
MARGARET MEAD

Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series

We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Margaret Mead Quotes