Ruth Benedict Quotes
"Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Culture)
"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Strength, World)
"I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Desperation, World)
"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Time, Trust, Answers, Future)
"I haven't strength of mind not to need a career."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Strength, Career, Mind)
"I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Women, Inspiration)
"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
(Related: War, Examination, Will)
"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
(Related: Eyes, Man, Thinking, World)
"A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Gratitude, Virtue, Job, Man)
"Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: History, Decision, Future, Racism, Today, Will, World)
"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
(Related: History, Life, Community, First)
"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Purpose, Anthropology, World)
"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Life, Answers, Trouble)
"Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Faith, Future, Present)