Ruth Benedict Quotes

Most popular Ruth Benedict Quotes

Liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others. - Ruth Benedict quote.
Liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.
— Ruth Benedict An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict

freedom

Faith is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine. - Ruth Benedict quote.
Faith is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.
— Ruth Benedict An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict

faith

The trouble is not that we are never happy—it is that happiness is so episodical. - Ruth Benedict quote.
The trouble is not that we are never happy—it is that happiness is so episodical.
— Ruth Benedict An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict

happiness

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers. - Ruth Benedict quote.
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
— Ruth Benedict An Anthropologist at Work

answers

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority. - Ruth Benedict quote.
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.
— Ruth Benedict Race: Science and Politics

racism dogma

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil. - Ruth Benedict quote.
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.
— Ruth Benedict An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict

happiness