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Ruth Benedict
6 quotes
“From the moment of his birth the customs into which [an individual] is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture.”
Ruth Benedict (1887–1948) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pattern of Culture [1934], ch. 1
“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 (1887–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our children are not individuals whose rights and tastes are casually respected from infancy, as they are in some primitive societies . . . . They are fundamentally extension of our own egos and give a special opportunity for the display of authority.”
Ruth Benedict (1887–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Ruth Benedict (1887–1948) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Race: Science and Politics [1940], ch. 2
“Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenitial superiority.”
Ruth Benedict (1887–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The tough-minded are content that differences should exist. They respect differences. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.”
Ruth Benedict (1887–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture [1967], p. 15.