In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. - Ruth Benedict
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.
- Ruth Benedict
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation. - Ruth Benedict
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. - Ruth Benedict
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
We do not see the lens through which we look. - Ruth Benedict
We do not see the lens through which we look.
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others. - Ruth Benedict
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women. - Ruth Benedict
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. - Ruth Benedict
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. F… - Ruth Benedict
The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. F…
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding. - Ruth Benedict
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.
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