Ashley Montagu Quotes

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health

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.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.

The main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

Hatred is love frustrated.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

No one should be required to see America for the first time.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

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

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

Science has proof without any certainty.
Creationists have certainty without any proof.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.