Margaret Mead on War
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Margaret Mead, catalogued under war, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Margaret Mead, entry #97888: "It is, very simply, an account of how three primitive societies have grouped their social attitudes towards temperament about the very obvious facts of sex-difference."
Attributed to Margaret Mead, entry #63618: "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…"
3 Quotes by Margaret Mead on War
"It is, very simply, an account of how three primitive societies have grouped their social attitudes towards temperament about the very obvious facts of sex-difference."
"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."
"Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce."