Margaret Mead Quotes

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

Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

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.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.