Creative Quotations from . . .
Ruth Benedict
(1887-1948) born on Jun 06
US anthropologist. "She was an expert on American Indian tribes; wrote classic "Patterns of Culture," 1934; "Race, Science and Politics," 1940."
 
   
F
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.

R
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
A
"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."
N
The trouble is not that we are never happy -- it is that happiness is so episodical.
K
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Patterns of Culture," ch. 1, 1934."
R: ""An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict," by Margaret Mead, 1959."
A: ""Patterns of Culture," ch. 1, 1934."
N: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K: ""An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict," by Margaret Mead, 1959."
   



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