The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
Ruth BenedictWar is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.
Ruth BenedictRacism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.
Ruth BenedictI gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
Ruth BenedictThe mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.
Ruth Benedict