Ashley Montagu

“The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.”

“The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.”

“The idea of 'race' is a man-made myth.”

“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”

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

“The object of life is to die young as late as possible.”

“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.”

“Human beings are the only creatures that are able to be inhuman to their own kind.”

“The good die young—because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.”

“To be human is to weep. The human species is the only one in the whole world of animate nature that sheds tears.”

“Freedom is the exercise of the discipline of responsibility.”

“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.”

“The idea of 'race' is a man-made myth, and has been used to justify some of the most heinous crimes in human history.”

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

“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”

“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.”

“The ability to 'see' is the first step toward enrichment of life.”

“We are not born with the ability to love; we have to learn it.”

“A scientist is a man who can be responsible for his own mistakes.”

“The fact is that the theory of evolution is the only theory that can explain the facts of life.”