Ashley Montagu Quotes

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

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

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

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

Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever and becomes an unforgiving part of his or hier personality--a massive frustration resulting in a hostility which will seek expression in later life in violent acts towards others. The sooner we understand that love and gentleness are the only kinds of called-far behavior towards children, the better. The child, especially, learns to become the kind of human being that he or she has experienced. This should be fully understood by all caregivers.

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

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

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

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.

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

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

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.

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

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

The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of our lives. . . . "Old age" should be a harvest time when the riches of life are reaped and enjoyed, while it continues to be a special period for self-development and expansion.

Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.

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.