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 original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live...
The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.
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.
There are people who see nudity in the crotch of every tree
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.
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 cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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