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 measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.
It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.
Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.
The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health
The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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.