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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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Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it was pitting of our faith in things against their faith in spirit.

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Ruth Benedict Faith Japan Materialism Spirit United States Victory War

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

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Ruth Benedict Anthropology Differences Peace

Faith is the sturdiest the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.

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The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

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