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I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
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.
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.
You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
It seemed to me that people do a rather good job of creating levels of hell all by themselves, and this was something worth writing about.
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.
While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.
Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.
The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
I think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of organizing communism. Much of what we do is already communism, so just expand it.
The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.
When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.
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.
If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.
Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.
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
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
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.
Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.
The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships.
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community
[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.