Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other. — Ruth Benedict Anglo saxon Copy Share Image
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war… — Ruth Benedict Bears Copy Share Image
Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic… — Ruth Benedict Born Copy Share Image
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is… — Ruth Benedict Achieve Copy Share Image
The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.… — Ruth Benedict Able Copy Share Image
. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to… — Ruth Benedict Busy Copy Share Image
What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common. — Ruth Benedict Common Copy Share Image
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races. — Ruth Benedict Arrogance Copy Share Image
So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a… — Ruth Benedict Careers Copy Share Image
Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior. — Ruth Benedict Behavior Copy Share Image
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his… — Ruth Benedict Community Copy Share Image
War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what… — Ruth Benedict Conditions Copy Share Image
Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude. — Ruth Benedict Character Copy Share Image
“Such men will never know the added love of their culture which comes from a knowledge of other ways of life.” — Ruth Benedict Life Copy Share Image
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait. — Ruth Benedict Civilization Copy Share Image
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. — Ruth Benedict Crucial Copy Share Image
Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. — Ruth Benedict Community Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of opportunities: one which we chance upon, the other which we create.” — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation. — Ruth Benedict Certain Copy Share Image
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions… — Ruth Benedict Thinking Copy Share Image
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women. — Ruth Benedict Inspiration Copy Share Image
The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Able Copy Share Image
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the… — Ruth Benedict Decision Copy Share Image
