Margaret Mead Quotes

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities - the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get an answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

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

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