Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever and becomes an unforgiving part of his or hier personality--a massive frustration resulting in a hostility which… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world . — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war,… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
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… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
