Margaret Mead Quotes About Society
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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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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
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where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves.
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Margaret Mead
- Born: December 16, 1901
- Died: November 15, 1978
- Occupation: Cultural Anthropologist