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.
Ashley MontaguYou certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
Ashley MontaguThe natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Ashley MontaguIn Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
Ashley MontaguThe parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.
Ashley Montagu