Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict
Ruth Fulton Benedictwas an American anthropologist and folklorist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth5 June 1887
CountryUnited States of America
Ruth Benedict quotes about
civilization historical groups
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.
thank-you gratitude jobs
Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.
careers mind needs
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
race diversity world
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.
self civilization people
Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them.
opposites humanity adequate
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.
race racism arrogance
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.
lenses looks unreasonable
We do not see the lens through which we look.
long different rebel
It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.
training body spirit
The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.
enlightenment rewards facts
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies.
race people community
In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.
important inheritance roles
We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.
baby children book
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?