Famous Quotes / Ruth Benedict
14 Quotations by Ruth Benedict
- 1. A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active ...
- 2. Faith is the sturdiest, the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It ...
- 3. Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.
- 4. If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves ...
- 5. In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day ...
- 6. In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow fol ...
- 7. No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs an ...
- 8. No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs an ...
- 9. Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
- 10. Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides ...
- 11. The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on beha ...
- 12. The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accomodation to the patterns and standar ...
- 13. The trouble is not that we are never happy -- it is that happiness is so episodical.
- 14. We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.