Margaret Mead Mugs

Description: Smart women with a big heart.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves.

Description: A quote from anthropologist Margaret Mead.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: Never depend upon institutions or governments to solve any problem. All social movements are founded, guided by, motivated, and seen through by the passion of individuals.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: 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.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: 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.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: 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.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: A human being’s Most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which human beings share with many other species, but the ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught them.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: 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 have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?”

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

Description: Margaret Mead

Description: Margaret Mead

Description: Margaret Mead was an American anthropologist whose great fame owed as much to the force of her personality and her outspokenness as it did to the quality of her scientific work.

Description: Margaret Mead was an American anthropologist whose great fame owed as much to the force of her personality and her outspokenness as it did to the quality of her scientific work.

Description: Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: 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.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: I Do Not Believe in Using Women in Combat, Because Females Are Too Fierce.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: “What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”

Description: Margaret Mead quote: Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man

Description: Margaret Mead quote: “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”

Description: Margaret Mead quote: Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

Description: Margaret Mead quote: For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Description: Never Doubt That A Small Group Margaret Mead Quote Vintage

Description: “Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.” - Margaret Mead - Place your faith in determined people because waiting for any system to rescue you only wastes precious time. Makes a great gift for grassroots activists and self-reliant changemakers.

Description: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead - Gather a few dedicated hearts and watch how ordinary people rewrite history against all odds. Makes a great gift for activists, organizers, and hopeful realists.