Margaret Mead Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

Margaret Mead quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased scientist born on Dec 16, 1901). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 43 we have for her.

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

“We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.”

“Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.”

“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.”

“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.”

“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”

“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”

“Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.”

“Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.”

“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.”