Occupation: Cultural Anthropologist Birth: December 16, 1901 Death: November 15, 1978
The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pe….
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, g….
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or….
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes..
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children..
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on..
[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as….
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents..
...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankin….
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the as….
Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in centr….
Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what ….
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world..
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention..
the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children..
It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet..
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate..
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have..
War is only an invention, not a biological necessity..
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain..
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves.