oldschool8 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} oldschool8) wrote,@ 2006-09-18 18:27:00 |
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Franz Boas quotes
"We should look on foreign races with greater sympathy and with conviction that, as all races have contributed in the past to cultural progress in one way or another, so they will be capable of advancing the interest of mankind if we are only willing to give them the fair opportunity"
"I cannot visualize how reasonable people and nations which are "leaders of civilization" can conjure up such a terrible war.... If people would only realize what a source of hatred and misfortune the highly praised patriotism represents. That one cherishes one's way of life is a natural thing. But does one need to nourish the thought that it is the best of all, that everything different is not good but useless, that it is right to despise the people of other nations? In our private lives we would not follow such an unethical rule. Why should it prevail in our national life? If one could only exclude this "patriotismus" from our school and teach our children the good in our culture, and appreciation of the good in other cultures. Instead they artificially culticate envy and rivalry."
"Science alone is not the greatest good. I believe one can be really happy only as a member of humanity as a whole, if one works with all one's energy together with the masses toward high goals. And what I want, for what I want to live and die, is equal rights for all, equal possibilities to learn and work for rich and poor alike. Don't you believe that to have done even the smallest bit for this is more than all science taken together."
"We should look on foreign races with greater sympathy and with conviction that, as all races have contributed in the past to cultural progress in one way or another, so they will be capable of advancing the interest of mankind if we are only willing to give them the fair opportunity"
"I cannot visualize how reasonable people and nations which are "leaders of civilization" can conjure up such a terrible war.... If people would only realize what a source of hatred and misfortune the highly praised patriotism represents. That one cherishes one's way of life is a natural thing. But does one need to nourish the thought that it is the best of all, that everything different is not good but useless, that it is right to despise the people of other nations? In our private lives we would not follow such an unethical rule. Why should it prevail in our national life? If one could only exclude this "patriotismus" from our school and teach our children the good in our culture, and appreciation of the good in other cultures. Instead they artificially culticate envy and rivalry."
"Science alone is not the greatest good. I believe one can be really happy only as a member of humanity as a whole, if one works with all one's energy together with the masses toward high goals. And what I want, for what I want to live and die, is equal rights for all, equal possibilities to learn and work for rich and poor alike. Don't you believe that to have done even the smallest bit for this is more than all science taken together."
