Top 58 Ashley Montagu Quotes
#1. Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.
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#2. The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#5. The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.
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#7. The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
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#8. No one should be required to see America for the first time.
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#9. Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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#10. The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
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#11. It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable
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#12. 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.
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#13. The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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#14. Science has proof without any certainty.
Creationists have certainty without any proof.
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#15. 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.
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#17. One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
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#18. Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.
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#19. 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 ...
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#20. Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.
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#21. You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
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#22. It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.
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#23. The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
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#24. 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.
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#25. It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
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#26. The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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#27. The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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#28. Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
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#29. The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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?
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#32. 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.
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#34. The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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#35. 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.
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#36. The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health
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#37. 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
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#38. The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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#39. The main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
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#40. The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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#43. The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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#44. The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.
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#45. Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
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#49. The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
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#50. 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.
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#51. In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
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#52. The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
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#53. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
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#54. The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
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#56. Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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#57. For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.
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#58. 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.
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