Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.

Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies.

The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.