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

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed. – Margaret Mead

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America
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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. – Margaret Mead

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Science
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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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The only men who arent in fear of womens reactions are usually men who arent born or who are dead. – Warren Farrell

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Fear

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating. – Andrew Cohen

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Fear

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. – Paulo Coelho

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Fear

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. – Marian Anderson

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Fear

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Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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