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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
Ashley Montagu
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Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
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Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley Montagu
Israel Ehrenberg
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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 living things whatsoever.
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Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?
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In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
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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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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.
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There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
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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.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
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Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching.
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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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Stand still, close your eyes and listen in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.
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