Frasi di Margaret Mead

“Non dubitate che un piccolo gruppo di cittadini coscienti e risoluti possa cambiare il mondo. In realtà è l'unico modo in cui è sempre successo.”

“Essere sorelle è probabilmente la parentela più competitiva all'interno della famiglia, ma una volta che le sorelle sono cresciute, diventa la relazione più forte.”

“Gli uomini preferirebbero essere uomini di una razza inferiore, piuttosto che femmine.”

“Uno dei più antichi bisogni umani è avere qualcuno che si chieda dove sei quando non torni a casa la notte.”

“Le donne vogliono uomini mediocri e gli uomini ce la mettono tutta per diventarlo.”

“Noi affrontiamo costantemente enormi opportunità - perfettamente mascherate da problemi insolubili.”

“Maiali, mucche, galline e persone si contendono i cereali.”

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

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

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

“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.”

“There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing… when we save our children, we save ourselves”

“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.”

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

“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

“We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.”

“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.”

“If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.”

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

“The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.”

“If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.”

“My material on Samoa was gathered during a nine-month field trip in 1925–26 as a Fellow in the Biological Sciences of the National Research Council, on a research project designated as the study of the adolescent girl.
The Samoan Islands, with a population in 1926 of 40,229, are peopled by a Polynesian group, a people with light brown skin and wavy black hair who speak a Polynesian language. The islands were Christianized in the first half of the nineteenth century and were administratively divided between a League of Nations Mandate under New Zealand called Western Samoa, which comprised the islands of Upolu and Savaii, and American Samoa, which was governed by the United States Navy.
All my detailed work was done in the remote islands of the Manua group, principally in the village of Tau on the island of Tau.”

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”

“Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.”

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

“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 delightful.”

“You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.”

“Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.”

“It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”

“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”

“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.”

“An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift”

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

“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”