Occupation: Cultural Anthropologist Birth: December 16, 1901 Death: November 15, 1978
The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the fo….
EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows an….
Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poet….
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us..
Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones..
The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight t….
Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency..
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings..
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women..
Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me th….
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things..
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?.
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want..
From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift..
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature..
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions..
Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both cou….
We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contri….
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good..
The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire.….