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Ruth Benedict Quotes
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The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
. . . work even when I’m satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I’ve brought to heel. It’s always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime. (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
Liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
We do not see the lens through which we look (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
The peoples of the earth are one family (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
I haven’t strength of mind not to need a career (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
A man’s indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
It is strange how we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
Racism remains in the eyes of history... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races (Ruth Benedict Quotes)
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