Explore more quotes by Margaret Mead

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

Men, Women, Want

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things."

People,

"The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind."

Mind, Pain

"Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders."

History, Time, First, Television

"Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance."

Love, Dance, Energy, Fossil fuel

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

Humanity,

"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."

Life, Time, First, Right

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."

Home, Needs, Night, Wonder

"Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary."

Man,

"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."

Family, Relatives, Support

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"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Society, Mankind, Needs, Self, State

"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Society, Intelligence, Knowledge, Fact, Mind

"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Society, Blush, Man, Old, Pride

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Society, Government, Press, Will

"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Society, Country

"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

Society, People, Heart, Courtesy, Old

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Society, Old

"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

Society, History, Sex, Progress, Ugly

"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."

Mark Twain, American Author

Society, Now, Poverty

"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Society, Sympathy, Feelings, Thoughts, Habits