If we make one criterion for defining the artist the impulse to make something new, or to do something in a new way – a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good – then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.

— Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead Quotes

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.

— Margaret Mead

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.

— Margaret Mead

Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child’s biological impulses.

— Margaret Mead

Man’s role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

— Margaret Mead

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

— Margaret Mead

I don’t consider my marriages as failures! It’s idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it’s failed.

— Margaret Mead

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

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

— Margaret Mead

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

— Margaret Mead

And as I had my father’s kind of mind-which was also his mother’s-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

— Margaret Mead

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.

— Margaret Mead

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

— Margaret Mead

Man’s most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

— Margaret Mead

Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression.

— Margaret Mead

We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who is to choose wisely must be healthy in mind and body. The children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

— Margaret Mead

If we make one criterion for defining the artist the impulse to make something new, or to do something in a new way – a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good – then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.

— Margaret Mead

I’m unique just like everyone else.

— Margaret Mead

Too many people, when they reject God, go on believing in the devil. Many intellectuals have a sense of evil without a confidence in good.

— Margaret Mead

Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead

You are totally unique. Just like everyone else.

— Margaret Mead
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