Ashley Montagu Quotes

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• Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.

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  Communication, Teaching, Love Is

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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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  Needs, Lovable, Individual

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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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  Race, Racism, Feminist

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• Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

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  Love Is, Enough, Dangerous

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

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  Women, Evidence, Whole

  Ashley Montagu (1999). “The Natural Superiority of Women”, p.91, Rowman Altamira

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• For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

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  Love Is, Survival, Behavior

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

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• The idea is to die young as late as possible.

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  Motivational, Death, Kids

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• The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

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  Men, Humanity, His Love

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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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  Life, Education, Equality

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

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  Race, Ideas, Dangerous

  Ashley Montagu (2001). “Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race”, p.41, AltaMira Press

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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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  Time, Not Good Enough, Humanity

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

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  Men, Function, Teach

  Ashley Montagu (1999). “The Natural Superiority of Women”, p.232, Rowman Altamira

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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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  Happiness, Happy, Being Happy

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”

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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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  Believe, Writing, People

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• The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

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• The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.

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  Believe, People, Majority

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

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  Systematic, Mental Illness, Institutions

  "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson",

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• ... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

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  Principles, Development, Guides

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

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• An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

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  World, Danger, North Korea

  Ashley Montagu (1958). “Education and Human Relations”

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• 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.

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  Journey, Self, Harvest Time

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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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  Nature, Animal, Names

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• The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

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  Play, Mental Health, Criteria

  Cited in: Thomas J. Sweeney (1989), 'Adlerian counseling: a practical approach for a new decade', p. 54, 1981.

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• 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.

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  Girl, Boys, Irritation

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• 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.

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  Children, Integrity, Frustration

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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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