“Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.”
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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.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.