Montague Francis Ashley Montagu, 1905 - 1999
Born: 28 June 1905, London, England, UK
Died: 26 November 1999, Princeton, New Jersey
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- Absolute truth belongs only to one class of humans, ... the class of absolute fools. permalink
Ashley Montagu - 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. permalink
Ashley Montagu - All human beings should enjoy the rights that are theirs by virtue of their being human, and not one iota of their rights should ever be abridged on the ground of sex; but to secure them women will have to labor hard. It cannot be too often repeated that they will have to do most of the work themselves in improving their status. Getting laws passed will not be enough; the long hard pull will be to achieve full recognition and acceptance of their abilities in all phases of national and international life. permalink
Ashley Montagu - The Natural Superiority of Women (1952) - 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. permalink
Ashley Montagu - Circumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. permalink
Ashley Montagu - "Mutilated Humanity" (1991) - 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. permalink
Ashley Montagu - Hatred is love frustrated. permalink
Ashley Montagu - Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago. permalink
Ashley Montagu - Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. permalink
Ashley Montagu - 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 serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection. permalink
Ashley Montagu - The Human Connection (1979) - Human societies must be based on human relations first, and economic activities must be a function of human relations — not the other way round. permalink
Ashley Montagu - The Natural Superiority of Women (1952) - I consider the theme of this book to be a most important one, for I am convinced, and I hope the reader will agree, that good relations between the sexes are basic to the development of good human relations in all societies. permalink
Ashley Montagu - The Natural Superiority of Women (1952) - In states of perplexity men will rub their chins with their hand, or tug at the lobes of their ears, or rub their foreheads or cheeks or back of the neck. Women have very different gestures in such states. They will either put a finger on their lower front teeth with the mouth slightly open or pose a finger under the chin. Other masculine gestures in states of perplexity are: rubbing one's nose, placing the flexed fingers over the mouth, rubbing the side of the neck, rubbing the infraorbital part of the face, rubbing the closed eyes, and picking the nose. These are all masculine gestures; so is rubbing the back of the hand or the front of the thigh, and pursing of the lips. permalink
Ashley Montagu - Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin (1971) - 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. permalink
Ashley Montagu - It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable. permalink
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