“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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a woman. There is one crown which perhaps is worth it all–a great love, a quiet home, and children. We all know that is all that is worthwhile, and yet we must peg away, showing off our wares on the market if we have money, or manufacturing careers for ourselves if we haven’t.”
Ruth Benedict
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.”
Ruth Benedict
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.”
Ruth Benedict
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
Ruth Benedict
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“… no book … ever competed with the Bible. The story of Ruth was better than Ramona, and the poetry of Job was better than Longfellow. I still have my first big Bible, carefully underlined through with red and black ink, and interleafed [sic] with painfully written manuscript pages…. Margery and I earned our five cents a week for church and a penny for Sunday school by learning three verses of the Bible a day and six on Sunday. We learned dozens and dozens of chapters. I supposed “Evangeline” and “Hiawatha” were better poetry, but I didn’t like them so well.”
Ruth Benedict
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.”
Ruth Benedict
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Race
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“Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.”
Ruth Benedict
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Faith
