Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. — Ruth Benedict Dies Copy Share Image
In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the… — Ruth Benedict Ancestry Copy Share Image
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some… — Ruth Benedict Behalf Copy Share Image
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital… — Ruth Benedict Destined Copy Share Image
We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of… — Ruth Benedict Accepting Copy Share Image
“The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, but that there are so many answers” — Ruth Benedict Answer Copy Share Image
The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion… — Ruth Benedict Accounts Copy Share Image
The tough-minded ... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to… — Ruth Benedict Conditions Copy Share Image
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others. — Ruth Benedict Freedom Copy Share Image
... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it… — Ruth Benedict Business Copy Share Image
... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It… — Ruth Benedict Dies Copy Share Image
