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… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. — 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 messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share
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, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record - and its potential damage to the quality of human life and the fabric of civilized society is beyond calculation. For that reason this sickness of the soul might… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share
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 preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it!… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share
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
