Quotes by : Ruth Benedict

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails why should one condemn oneself to live day....

Faith is the sturdiest the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It....

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards....

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides.....

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States.....

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf....

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.