Ruth Benedict Quotes

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Culture is more important than politics.

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

We have a unique culture.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

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

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

Custom is our nature …

I don't understand anything about America's culture.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

There are a lot of things that people learn and live through culture first, and politics comes afterward.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Culture is coded wisdom

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

Culture is intangible. It's spiritual. You can't buy it.

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.