Occupation: Anthropologist Birth: June 28, 1905 Death: November 26, 1999
You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius..
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone..
The only measure of what you believe is what you do..
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the q….
The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health..
Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor..
To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom..
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason..
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals,….
I want to die young at a ripe old age..
Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhoo….
The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be..
Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago..
The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to liv….
An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world ..
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined..
The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their gen….
Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information ….
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings..
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being..
Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do every….