Margaret Mead

"The way your employees feel is exactly the way your customers feel. And if your employees don't feel valued, neither will your customers."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or moral."

"One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all."

"The way to do fieldwork is never to pretend to know anything."

"As the young people of the world rebel against the constraints of the past, they are creating a new culture."

"You have to decentralize power to the people who do the work every day."

"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities."

"The knowledge that the powers of darkness are ranged against us does not make us despair."

"Young people need models, not critics."

"The institution of the family is the basis for all civilization."

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."

"The Balinese have taught me more about human nature than any university could."

"Every contribution to human knowledge is a gift that we pass forward."

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible."

"The freedom from fear is as important as freedom of speech."

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited."

"Coming of age in Samoa taught me that adolescence does not have to be a time of turmoil."

"The great tradition of parenthood is the greatest tradition in the world."

"We must recognize that consciousness itself may not be as central to human behavior as we have long assumed."

"Never underestimate the ability of a group of committed people to change the world."

"The mind is not sex-typed; the difference between men and women is socially constructed."

"A small group of thoughtful people could change the course of history."

"Good parents give their children roots and wings."

"The ability to learn is the most important part of being human."

"We are living in the most revolutionary period in human history."

"The past is the precedent for the future; history repeats itself through human patterns."

"Every time we fail to use our freedom, we prepare the way for the loss of freedom."

"My grandmother gave me my sense of discipline and my sense of taste."