Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

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

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

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.

The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.