Quotes from Ashley Montagu

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

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

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

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

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

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

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

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.

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.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

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

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

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.

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

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

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

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

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.

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 moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

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

It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance.