Ruth Benedict Quote

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.


An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict (1959)


No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled...

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled...

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled...

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled...