Ruth Benedict - History Quotes

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In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture. In scientific language, culture is not a function of race.

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The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

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War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.

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Racism remains in the eyes of history... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

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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.

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As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

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