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Quotation by Ruth Benedict
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Ruth Benedict (24)Additional Sources
An Anthropologist at Work (1959)as quoted in An Anthropologist at Work by Margaret Mead (1959)Patterns of Culture (1934)Race: Science and Politics (1940)The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1946)Related Subjects
war (22) thinking (8) thoughtful (8) life (8) self (7) passion (7) character (7) love (6) evil (6) death (5)
... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one's own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.
Ruth Benedict (1887–1948), U.S. anthropologist. An Anthropologist at Work, part 4 (1959).
From "Primitive Freedom," a paper written in 1942.
From "Primitive Freedom," a paper written in 1942.
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