Quote by Margaret Mead
The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make the

The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair. – Margaret Mead

Other quotes by Margaret Mead

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. – Margaret Mead

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Fear
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. – Margaret Mead

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Family
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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

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Age
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The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity. – Taylor Caldwell

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A liberal is man who will give away everything he doesnt own. – Frank Dane

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If God had been a liberal, we wouldnt have had the Ten Commandments — wed have the Ten Suggestions. – Malcolm Bradbury

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Liberalism, above all, means emancipation — emancipation from ones fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination… from poverty. – Hubert Humphrey

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