Edmund Leach Quotes

#1. What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions ...

Charles Hampden-Turner

#2. People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.

Chuck Hagel

#3. Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Edmund Leach

#4. 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.

Edmund Leach

#5. 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 Leach

#6. The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there's never been a formula. Each time, it's a new thing.

Trevor Rabin

#7. 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

#8. I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.

Joseph Hall

#9. As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven ... As those who climb a rotten ladder are in danger, so all honor, glory, and power are opposed to humility.

John Climacus

#10. 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.

Edmund Leach

#11. Remember, just because something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's impossible.

Brad Meltzer

#12. I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

Elmore Leonard