Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as …

Margaret Mead
124 citations
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. ✨ MARGARET MEAD (1959). PEOPLE AND PLACES
Humanity
15

More Author Quotes

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. ✨ Attributed to Margaret Mead in Andrew L. Zehner How They W … ▶
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.
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. ✨ Attributed to Margaret Mead in Fleur L. Strand Physiology: A Regulatory Systems Approach (p. 509), 1978.
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging. ✨ Margaret Mead (1975) … ▶

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. ✨ MARGARET MEAD (1959). PEOPLE AND PLACES

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes