Ashley Montagu Quotes

Most popular Ashley Montagu Quotes

Hatred is love frustrated. - Ashley Montagu quote.
Hatred is love frustrated.
— Ashley Montagu The Natural Superiority of Women

hate love and hate

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity. - Ashley Montagu quote.
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
— Ashley Montagu
The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man. - Ashley Montagu quote.
The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
— Ashley Montagu

men and women

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. - Ashley Montagu quote.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
— Ashley Montagu Science and Creationism

certainty

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. - Ashley Montagu quote.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
— Ashley Montagu Man Observed

happiness

In all societies women have played a much more important role than their menfolk are generally ready to admit. - Ashley Montagu quote.
In all societies women have played a much more important role than their menfolk are generally ready to admit.
— Ashley Montagu
Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one's beliefs. - Ashley Montagu quote.
Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one's beliefs.
— Ashley Montagu Science and Creationism

tyranny

It is not so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit that is most likely to yield gratification, and then only occasionally. - Ashley Montagu quote.
It is not so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit that is most likely to yield gratification, and then only occasionally.
— Ashley Montagu Man Observed

pursuit

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 quote.
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 Cultured Man

defeat

Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more then chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee. - Ashley Montagu quote.
Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more then chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.
— Ashley Montagu in Redbook

father

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. - Ashley Montagu quote.
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.
— Ashley Montagu The Human Connection

communication

When men abandon the upbringing of their children to their wives, a loss is suffered by everyone, but perhaps most of all by themselves. For what they lose is the possibility of growth in themselves for being human which the stimulation of bringing up one's children gives. - Ashley Montagu quote.
When men abandon the upbringing of their children to their wives, a loss is suffered by everyone, but perhaps most of all by themselves. For what they lose is the possibility of growth in themselves for being human which the stimulation of bringing up one's children gives.