The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone Margaret Mead More Quotes by Margaret Mead More Quotes From Margaret Mead The negative cautions of science are never popular. Margaret Mead cautionnegative Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world. Margaret Mead brainattentionworld If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water. Margaret Mead lastswould-bewater Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play. Margaret Mead gamesplaysex There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women. Margaret Mead girlcaringchildren No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. Margaret Mead womenfamilymatter Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back. Margaret Mead technologydiscoverypeople A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. Margaret Mead groupscitiesmen Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones. Margaret Mead learned-behaviorgivenbehavior Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce. Margaret Mead fightingrealwar You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own. Margaret Mead girlmenboys The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep. Margaret Mead runningchildrenfall The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead. Margaret Mead lawmindlong Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man Margaret Mead laughterloyaltyhate Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the Arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young... with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. Parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them. Margaret Mead daughtercouplesex Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law. Margaret Mead citieslawmother Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency. Margaret Mead napkinsemergencieshumble All social change comes from the passion of individuals. Margaret Mead individualpassionserious Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too. Margaret Mead being-a-mothercakemother most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than surrendering himself to the situation, as one must in studying human beings as they actually live. Margaret Mead studysciencepeople
