"We are in the habit of thinking in terms of great leaders largely because the leaders themselves want it that way. Th…"

"To say that the invention "was in the air" or "the times were ripe for it" are just other ways of stating that the in…"

"A human being cannot survive alone and be entirely human. It is through the nature of their social and political inst…"

"The members of a society do not make conscious choices in arriving at a particular way of life. Rather, they make unc…"

"Culture is all the things and ideas ever devised by humans working and living together."

"The astonishing cluster of them [geniuses] that appeared in Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries B. C. ...wha…"

"The Shoshone, as well as those peoples around the world who still survive at the least complex levels of social organ…"

"An isolated human in a simple society is usually a dead human..."

"An incestuous marriage establishes no new bonds between unrelated groups; it is an absurd denial to the right to incr…"

"To do nothing now is to let our children lament that they never knew the magnificent diversity of humankind because o…"