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

Quote by Margaret Mead

Topics: Margaret Mead Quotes

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is...

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is...

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must...

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must...

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing...

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing...

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week...

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week...

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance...

The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance...

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and...

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and...

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities...

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities...

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the...

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed...

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a...

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a...

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are...

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are...

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

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

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize...

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize...

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through...

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through...

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't...

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't...

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles...

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles...