Margaret Mead Quotes about Culture

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in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

Margaret Mead

Order, Culture, Humans

Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”, Harper & Row Barnes & Noble Import Division

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

Margaret Mead

Culture, Humans, Ideals

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

Margaret Mead

Arrogance, Self Control, Culture

Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.152, Berghahn Books

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

Margaret Mead

Suffering, Identity, Culture

Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

Margaret Mead

Giving, Doe, Culture

Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.162, Berghahn Books

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

Margaret Mead

Views, Vision, Culture

Margaret Mead, Paul Byers (1968). “The small conference: An innovation in communication”, p.6, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

What are the determinative factors in the early training of the child which assures that it will be placid and contented, unaggressive and non-initiatory, non-competitive and responsive, warm, docile, and trusting?

Margaret Mead

Sex, Culture, Docile

"Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.