Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.

We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.