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

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. – Margaret Mead

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Success
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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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Fear
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The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. – Sylvia Browne

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Fear

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Fear

Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic. – Tippi Hedren

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Fear

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. – Leon Kass

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Fear

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The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. Its the party of non-voters. – Robert Reich

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Ive always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. – Peter Jennings

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Im fighting the label of Black actress simply because its very limiting in peoples eyes, especially people who are making movies. – Whoopi Goldberg

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