Quote by Margaret Mead
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of etern

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

Other quotes by Margaret Mead

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. – Margaret Mead

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Age
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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History
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Never believe that a few caring people cant change the world. For, indeed, thats all who ever have. – Margaret Mead

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Change
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Other Quotes from
Fear
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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. – Marilyn Ferguson

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Fear

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. – Bertrand Russell

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Fear

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. – Richard Bach

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Fear

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. – Hāfez

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Fear

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In the end I didnt get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality. – Jacky Ickx

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car

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing? – Bo Bennett

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