Ruth Benedict quotes

" The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. " # Purpose # Literature # Poetry and Poets

" Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. " # Faith # The future # Death and Dying

" A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. " # Debt # Gratitude # Action

" 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. " # Innocence # Customers # Marriage

" Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make. " # Race and Racism # Decisions # Age and Aging

" If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. " # War # Love # Peace