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Ruth Benedict (Anthropologist)

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
— Ruth Benedict life
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
— Ruth Benedict purpose
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 world
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
— Ruth Benedict life
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
— Ruth Benedict men
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 history
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
— Ruth Benedict world
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
— Ruth Benedict faith
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
— Ruth Benedict world
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
— Ruth Benedict time
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
— Ruth Benedict logic
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
— Ruth Benedict mind
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
— Ruth Benedict inspiration
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 war
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.
— Ruth Benedict men
The trouble with life isnt that there is no answer, its that there are so many answers.
— Ruth Benedict life
The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.
— Ruth Benedict life

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