Quotes by Ashley Montagu

“The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.”

“Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the ...”

“The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.”

“The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incal...”

“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record - and it...”

“Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and ...”

“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 idea is to die young as late as possible.”

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

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

“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 intimat...”

“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 them what they believe just observe what they do.”

“In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Among both the Northern and Eastern Hamites are to be found some of the most beautiful types of humanity.”

“And we begin to understand that the goal of life is to die young — as late as possible!”