“ One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it. Margaret Mead
“ Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightfu… Margaret Mead
“ It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. Margaret Mead
“ I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. 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
“ Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. Margaret Mead
“ It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. 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
“ In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists. Margaret Mead
“ Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. Margaret Mead
“ I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to ha… Margaret Mead
“ 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. Margaret Mead
“ Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. Margaret Mead
“ One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. Margaret Mead
