black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

Margaret Mead

The negative cautions of science are never popular.
MARGARET MEAD

Caution Negative Popular Science
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD

Death Myself Retirement
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
MARGARET MEAD

Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
MARGARET MEAD

Demand Enough Hate Love Worst
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
MARGARET MEAD

Fact Family Invention Mom Social
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
MARGARET MEAD

Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
MARGARET MEAD

Beginning End Hands Life Voice
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
MARGARET MEAD

Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
MARGARET MEAD

Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
MARGARET MEAD

Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
MARGARET MEAD

Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
MARGARET MEAD

Help Invention People Time
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
MARGARET MEAD

Elder Experience Young
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
MARGARET MEAD

Culture Human Order Understand
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

Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Margaret Mead Quotes