An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local… — Ruth Benedict Able Copy Share Image
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the… — Ruth Benedict Brotherhood Copy Share Image
It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the… — Ruth Benedict Different Copy Share Image
“Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.” — Ruth Benedict Faith Copy Share Image
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world. — Ruth Benedict Gamer Copy Share Image
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been… — Ruth Benedict Circumstances Copy Share Image
The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical — Ruth Benedict Happiness Copy Share Image
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without… — Ruth Benedict Breaths Copy Share Image
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict Anthropology Copy Share Image
Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races… — Ruth Benedict Able Copy Share Image
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use. — Ruth Benedict Art Copy Share Image
The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable,… — Ruth Benedict Adaptable Copy Share Image
Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even… — Ruth Benedict Analysis Copy Share Image
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people… — Ruth Benedict Baby Copy Share Image
No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled… — Ruth Benedict Capacity Copy Share Image
... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country… — Ruth Benedict Appeals Copy Share Image
“Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she… — Ruth Benedict Faith Copy Share Image
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only… — Ruth Benedict Adequate Copy Share Image
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. — Ruth Benedict Character Copy Share Image
Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has… — Ruth Benedict Assimilation Copy Share Image
The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training. — Ruth Benedict Body Copy Share Image
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power. — Ruth Benedict Advantage Copy Share Image
The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on… — Ruth Benedict Conditions Copy Share Image
