Ashley Montagu Quotes - Page 2

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

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.

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 be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.

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.

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 to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.

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 way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

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.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do.

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! is not that same as Damn you!

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

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Hatred is love frustrated.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

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 curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.

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 benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.

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.