Civilization Quote by Margaret Mead

“we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.”

Margaret Mead

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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

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Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

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today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

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Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

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