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> [The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/the-japanese-are-to-the-highest-degree-both-aggressive-and/)

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## More by Ruth Benedict

> [We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/we-grow-in-time-to-trust-the-future-for-our-answers/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/an-observer-will-see-the-bizarre-developments-of-behavior-only-in/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/in-world-history-those-who-have-helped-to-build-the-same-culture-are/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/it-is-strange-how-long-we-rebel-against-a-platitude-until-suddenly-in/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [“Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/experience-contrary-to-common-belief-is-mostly-imagination/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/i-gambled-on-having-the-strength-to-live-two-lives-one-for-myself-and/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/western-civilization-because-of-fortuitous-historical-circumstances/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/the-trouble-is-not-that-we-are-never-happy-it-is-that-happiness-is-so/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/it-is-my-necessary-breath-of-life-to-understand-and-expression-is-the/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/the-purpose-of-anthropology-is-to-make-the-world-safe-for-human/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/success-and-failure-in-our-own-national-economy-will-hang-upon-the/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/i-haven-t-strength-of-mind-not-to-need-a-career/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/as-a-matter-of-history-great-developments-in-art-have-often-been/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/the-japanese-are-to-the-highest-degree-both-aggressive-and/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

> [Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-benedict/society-in-its-full-sense-is-never-an-entity-separable-from-the/)

[Ruth Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-benedict/)

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