Quote by Ruth Benedict
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and huma

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. – Ruth Benedict

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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. – Ruth Benedict

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Perception
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Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make. – Ruth Benedict

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Racism
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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. – Ruth Benedict

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War
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Culture
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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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Culture

Culture is one thing and varnish is another. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Culture

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. – Matthew Arnold

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Culture

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. – William Bolitho

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Culture

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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. – George Borrow

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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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