Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. — Ruth Benedict Community 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
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
It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the… — Ruth Benedict 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
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
Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other. — Ruth Benedict Anglo saxon Copy Share Image
“The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, but that there are so many answers” — Ruth Benedict 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 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
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
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some… — Ruth Benedict 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
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is… — Ruth Benedict 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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
