Ashley Montagu Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”
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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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“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.”
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“The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.”
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“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.”
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“In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.”
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“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”
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“To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.”
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“No one should be required to see America for the first time.”
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“The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!”
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“The 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.”
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“The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health”
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“It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.”
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“The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.”
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“Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.”
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“The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.”
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“Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.”
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“It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable”
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“In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.”
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“The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.”
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“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.”
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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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“It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle”
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“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.”
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“Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.”
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“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.”
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“One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.”
-- Ashley Montagu
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