It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must nev… - Margaret Mead

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It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

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About Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (16 December 1901 – 15 November 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

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Alternative Names: Margaret Bateson Margaret Mead Bateson Margaret Fortune Margaret Mead Fortune
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.

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