Bane Quote by Franz Boas Download Open image “The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization” — Franz Boas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bane Civilization Disease Distrust Modern Mutual Nations
“decline, fear of strangers and an unfamiliar world—is corroding the trust and interdependence on which civil societies rest.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It hardly needs saying that such mutualistic communities will also be plagued by conflict. Conflict is at the very heart of life, resulting not… — Benjamin Nelson Copy Share Image
“Diplomacy was created due to lack of trust between people. Trust is the fundamental force of attraction between people whereas diplomacy is the fundamental… — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At the same time, such people easily interpenetrate the social structure with a ramified [14] network of mutual pathological conspiracies poorly connected to the… — Andrzej Lobaczewski Copy Share Image
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake. — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment. — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
“I believe the present state of our knowledge justifies us in saying that, while individuals differ, biological differences are small. There is no reason… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports,… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
“Fear is the bane of all creatures and bubbles inside all forming a rock of solidifying darkness, sucking all will power to act or… — Isabella Irini Poretsis Copy Share Image
Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image