Ashley Montagu
Anthropologist
1905-06-28 – 1999-11-26
Ashley Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and humanist writer known for work on race, culture, and human development. He wrote extensively for both academic and public audiences.
Books by Ashley Montagu
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The natural superiority of women
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La peau et le toucher
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Quotes by Ashley Montagu
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Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the human heart and put it through a machine, we have made progress. Indeed, we flatter ourselves that we can make machines that think like human beings, while not always pausing to reflect that in the process we have also succeeded in making millions of human beings who can feel and think like machines. It is a sorry reflection.
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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.
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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.
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Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the human heart and put it through a machine, we have made progress. Indeed, we flatter ourselves that we can make machines that think like human beings, while not always pausing to reflect that in the process we have also succeeded in making millions of human beings who can feel and think like machines. It is a sorry reflection.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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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 them what they believe, just observe what they do.
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It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
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The only measure of what you believe is what you do.
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It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable.
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In teaching it is the message and not the content that is the message ... the drawing out, not the pumping in.
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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family gets together alone.
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