Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

— Margaret Mead

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

— Margaret Mead

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

— Margaret Mead

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

— Margaret Mead

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

In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

— Margaret Mead

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.

— Margaret Mead

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

— Margaret Mead

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

— Margaret Mead

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.

— Margaret Mead