It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.