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Quotes from Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views — Margaret Mead

1901–1978 United States

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

Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979)

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979)

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of their country.

Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979)

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.

Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979)

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.

Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Mead (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.