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"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
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"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."
"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
"One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in tribal societies that had not been pacified by a colonial or national government, particularly if they had an exaggerated culture of manly honor."
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
"Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo."
"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."
"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."
"Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'"
"The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him."
"If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all."
"Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected..."
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