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

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

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.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

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

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.

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

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

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

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.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

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.

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

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It fastens its attention upon those physical characteristics and industrial techniques, those conventions and values, which distinguish one community from all others that belong to a different tradition.

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

A connoisseur of tame excitement.

A mans indebtedness is not virtue his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

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

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over except when they are different.

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.