All Ashley Montagu Quotes
- The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception. Abortion
- I want to die young at a ripe old age. Age
- You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius. Brain
- The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Atheism
- 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… Chairman
- 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… Artificially
- Hatred is love frustrated. Frustrated
- 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… All
- 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… From
- It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being. Communicate
- The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity. Artist
- 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… Acquired
- The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man. Biologically
- 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… Anguish
- It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable Individual
- 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… Bases
- 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,… Clash
- The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings. All
- Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor. Labor
- Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. Archaic
- The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness. Family
- The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice. All
- 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… Baby
- Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading. Attitude
- 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. Born