Ashley Montagu Quotes
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.
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.
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.
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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?
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.
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.
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
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
It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
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.
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.
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.
Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
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.
You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
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.
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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.
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.
