Edmund Leach

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

— Edmund Leach

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#cook #food #men #reasons #show

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

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#barriers #because #beings #between #comes

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

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#being #family #far #good #narrow