Edmund Leach quotes
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“Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.”
-- Edmund LeachSource : Edmund Leach (1989). “Claude Levi-Strauss”, p.102, University of Chicago Press
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“The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.”
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“Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.”
-- Edmund LeachSource : BBC Reith Lectures, 1967, in 'Listener' 30 November 1967
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“How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.”
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“Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.”
-- Edmund Leach
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“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
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“Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”
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“The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.”
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“Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.”
Source : A.J. Hartley, David Hewson (2014). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel”, p.52
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Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.117, Hachette UK
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“Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.”
Source : Voltaire, Aaron Hill (1797). “Merope: A Tragedy”, p.50
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