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

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex

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.

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.

The peoples of the earth are one family.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?