Quotes by Margaret Mead

We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.

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.

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

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

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

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.