Margaret Mead

“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”

“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.”

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

“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”

“As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.”

“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.”

“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.”

“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”

“For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.”

“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”

“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

“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.”

“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”

“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.”

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”