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I want to die young at a ripe old age (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
One goes through school, college, medical school and one’s internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one’s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
You certainly can’t tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood? (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual’s sensibilities in relation not only to one’s fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
Intellect without humanity is not good enough... what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
...the original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual’s sensibilities in relation not only to one’s fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
It’s by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability (Ashley Montagu Quotes)
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, don’t ask what they believe, just observe what they do (Ashley Montagu Quotes)