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

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

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.

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.