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
differences safety world
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
gratitude jobs men
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
eye men thinking
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.
racism inferiority groups
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.
emotional may culture
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.
culture complexes
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex
memorable long dies
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
eye racism minorities
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.
two world gamer
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
sunshine storm spirituality
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.
success attitude race
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.
culture intolerance anglo-saxon
Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.
freedom men liberty
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.
differences culture humans
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.