Margaret Mead: "The contempt for law and the contempt for..."

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Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the mid-twentieth century.

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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

—Margaret Mead

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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

—Margaret Mead

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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

—Margaret Mead

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Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be."… This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

—Margaret Mead

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We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

—Margaret Mead

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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

—John Ruskin

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It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer most from the consequences of them.

—Philippa Carr

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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences.

—R. D. Ingersoll

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You can’t be responsible for anyone but you. We all make our own decisions, and pay our own consequences. You can love someone, but you can’t fix them.

—Lyla Payne in By Referral Only

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I have to live with my mistakes, but I don’t have to regret them. I regret my actions but I can’t regret the consequences. We all make our own paths in life. Everyone we meet, everything we do, it changes us. It makes us who we are. And, if we’re lucky, we’re given the chance to make things right again.

—Karina Halle in Sins & Needles

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

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