Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.

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

The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.

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.

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

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

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