Quotes by Ruth Benedict

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• A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

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• 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.

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• No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

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• Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

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• Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• indebtedness
• institutions
• dedicates
• gratitude
• possessed
• objective

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