Quotes by Edmund Leach

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