Margaret Mead Quotes

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

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

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

We make our own criminals and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back.