Quotes by Ashley Montagu
“The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.”— Ashley Montagu
“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.”— Ashley Montagu
“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.”— Ashley Montagu
“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”— Ashley Montagu
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”— 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—and a society—what it is.”— Ashley Montagu
“Human beings are the only creatures that are able to be inhuman to their own kind.”— Ashley Montagu
“Man is the only 150-pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.”— Ashley Montagu
“To be human is to weep. The human species is the only one in the whole world of animate nature that sheds tears.”— Ashley Montagu
“It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness.”— Ashley Montagu
“The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.”— Ashley Montagu
“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.”— Ashley Montagu
“The idea of 'race' is a man-made myth, and has been used to justify some of the most heinous crimes in human history.”— Ashley Montagu