Ashley Montagu Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Believe, Deeds

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  I want to die young at a ripe old age.

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  Inspirational, Life, Age

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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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  Animal, People, Evil

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

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  Dream, Attitude, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Communication, Media, Community

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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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  Integrity, Men, Principles

  Ashley Montagu (1958). “The Cultured Man”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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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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  Pain, Eye, Animal

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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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  Humanity, Development, Virtue

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• Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?

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  Animal, Order, Childhood

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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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  Life, Well Being, Communicate

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• 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.

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  Quality, Bases, Humans

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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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  School, Caring, Faculty Members

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

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  Want, Way, Life Is

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• Hatred is love frustrated.

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  Love, Hatred, Frustrated

  Ashley Montagu (1970). “The Direction of Human Development”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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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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  Success, Work, Differences

  Ashley Montagu (1958). “The Cultured Man”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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

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  Simple, Abortion, Facts

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• The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

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  Believe, Science, Religion

  "Science and Creationism". Book by Ashley Montagu (Introduction, p. 9), 1984.

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

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  Country, Loneliness, Together

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• The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

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  Kings, Appreciate, World

  Ashley Montagu (1989). “Growing Young”, p.120, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

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  Religious, Fear, Science

  "Science and Creationism". Book by Ashley Montagu (Introduction, p. 9), 1984.

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• To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

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  Ignorance, Exhibits

  Ashley Montagu (1973). “On Being Intelligent”, Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press

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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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  Love, Sleep, Men

  Ashley Montagu (1992). “The Natural Superiority of Women”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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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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  Heart, Fate, Damn You

  Ashley Montagu (2001). “The Anatomy of Swearing”, p.35, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.

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  Children, World, Hungry

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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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  Years, Doe, Delight

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American way of LIfe”

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