Culture Quote by Ruth Benedict Download Open image “Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex” — Ruth Benedict ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better. — C. J. Cherryh Copy Share Image
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection,… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“DNA also reveals behavior. Culture can become embedded in our cells just as it gets buried in the floors of caves, bogs, and dwellings.” — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary… — 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 same race… — Ruth Benedict 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 only verity. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical — 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 prodding. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — 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 and nations… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
