Ashley Montagu quotes

Ashley Montagu, born Israel Ehrenberg, was a British-American anthropologist known for his work in the field of human sexuality and race. With over 60 years of research and writing, Montagu was a prolific author, publishing more than 60 books in his lifetime. He was a strong advocate for human rights and social justice, challenging widely held beliefs about race and gender. Montagu's influential work has made a lasting impact on the fields of anthropology, biology, and psychology. Learn more about this groundbreaking scholar and his contributions to the study of human behavior and society.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

- Ashley Montagu

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

- Ashley Montagu

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

- Ashley Montagu

The deepest human 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

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

- Ashley Montagu

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

- Ashley Montagu