Ashley Montagu

Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity…

— Ashley Montagu

The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most…

— Ashley Montagu

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

— Ashley Montagu

Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than…

— Ashley Montagu

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so…

— Ashley Montagu

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

— Ashley Montagu

“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of…

— Ashley Montagu

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not…

— Ashley Montagu

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with…

— Ashley Montagu

The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or…

— Ashley Montagu

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make…

— Ashley Montagu

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

— Ashley Montagu

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

— Ashley Montagu

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

— Ashley Montagu

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

— Ashley Montagu

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

— Ashley Montagu

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

— Ashley Montagu

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

— Ashley Montagu

Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim…

— Ashley Montagu

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what…

— Ashley Montagu

Hatred is love frustrated.

— Ashley Montagu

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

— Ashley Montagu

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance…

— Ashley Montagu

The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings…

— Ashley Montagu

The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial…

— Ashley Montagu