All Ruth Benedict Quotes
- Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior. Any
- Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in… Achieve
- What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common. Binds
- Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known. Any
- Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other. Anglo
- In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach… Ancestry
- We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior,… Accept
- In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not… Babies
- The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. Beings
- 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… Adequate
- The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races. Arrogance
- Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine. Faith
- The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical Happiness