If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.