Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
Margaret Meadwas an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 December 1901
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
war invention
War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
war
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
war ninety-nine people
Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.
war warfare invention
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
children growing-up war
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
war age world
All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.
real war fighting
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.
war technology hands
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
civilization evil way
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
beautiful respect animal
...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.
capacity cooperate ruined
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate
hard mediocre men possible women
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible
drama invention
As Significant as the Invention of Drama or the Novel.
articulate brand chosen economic filled generation gone peace society unable until variety
A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t