. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.

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.

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

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

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

... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one's own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.

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