Ashley Montagu Quotes

A collection of quotes by Ashley Montagu.

Ashley Montagu (1905-1999) was a British-American anthropologist and humanist. He was born as Israel Ehrenberg in London and later changed his name to Ashley Montagu. Montagu made significant contributions to the field of anthropology, particularly in the study of human evolution and race. He was a vocal critic of racism and advocated for social justice and equality. Montagu authored numerous books on anthropology, including "Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race." He also served as a professor at various universities and was a respected public intellectual.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Death

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in nee

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

Love

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is

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

Happiness

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health bu

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.

Health

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a

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.

Potential

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a

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

Women

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have c

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Science

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's i

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

Learning

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest gu

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Happiness

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is t

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

Alone

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere alon

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

Medical