The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

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

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.

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

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.