Ashley Montagu
Ashley Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu, previously known as Israel Ehrenberg, was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. He was the rapporteur, in 1950, for the UNESCO statement The Race Question. As a young man he changed his name from Ehrenberg to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". After relocating to the United States he used the name "Ashley Montagu". Montagu, who became a naturalized American citizen in 1940, taught and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 June 1905
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
...the original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live...
Hatred is love frustrated.
The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.
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.
It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable
No one should be required to see America for the first time.
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.
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!
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.