Ruth Benedict Quotes
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists... view
By: Ruth Benedict
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex... view
By: Ruth Benedict
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world... view
By: Ruth Benedict
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation... view
By: Ruth Benedict
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers... view
By: Ruth Benedict
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career... view
By: Ruth Benedict
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women... view
By: Ruth Benedict
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... view
By: 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... view
By: Ruth Benedict
A man's indebtedness is not virtue.. view
By: Ruth Benedict
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed.. view
By: 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... view
By: Ruth Benedict
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences... view
By: Ruth Benedict
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers... view
By: Ruth Benedict
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future... view
By: Ruth Benedict