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
country fall ignorance
... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.
life educational answers
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
men ideas together
What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.
war examination bears
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
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.
happiness trouble
The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.
culture complexes
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex
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.
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.
fighting evil excitement
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.
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.
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.
inspirational motivational strong-women
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.