Ashley Montagu Short Quotes

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International law exists only in textbooks on international law.

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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

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

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

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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

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

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The sexes should not compete; they should cooperate and complement each other.

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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

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

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The main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

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

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Circumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

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Women are the bearers, the nurtures of life; men have more often tended to be the curtailers, the destroyers of life.

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

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

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Women must be granted complete equality with men, for only when this has been done will they fully be able to realize themselves.

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Human societies must be based on human relations first, and economic activities must be a function of human relations — not the other way round.

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As the god of contemporary man's idolatry, science is a two-handed engine, and as such science is too important a human activity to leave to the scientist.

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Women are the mothers of humanity; do not let us ever forget that or underemphasize its importance. What mothers are to their children, so will man be to man.

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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.

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Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more then chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.

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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.

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