Margaret Mead Quotes on World (10 Quotes)

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So 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.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever does

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

To cherish the life of the world.

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

In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

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