Quote

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

Ashley Montagu

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
Anthropologist
University Teacher
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley Montagu
Israel Ehrenberg
M. F. Ashley-Montague
Pound
Wholly
Pounds
Labor
Men
Nonlinear
Unskilled
Reproduced

More quotes by Ashley Montagu

Image
... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
Ashley Montagu
Image
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
Ashley Montagu
Image
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.
Ashley Montagu
Image
It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
Ashley Montagu
Image
The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
Ashley Montagu
Image
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
Ashley Montagu
Image
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
Ashley Montagu
Image
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
Ashley Montagu
Image
The deepest personal 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
Image
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.
Ashley Montagu
Image
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.
Ashley Montagu
Image
Hatred is love frustrated.
Ashley Montagu
Image
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
Image
The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
Ashley Montagu
Image
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
Ashley Montagu
Image
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
Ashley Montagu
Image
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.
Ashley Montagu
Image
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of our lives. . . . Old age should be a harvest time when the riches of life are reaped and enjoyed, while it continues to be a special period for self-development and expansion.
Ashley Montagu
Image
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
Ashley Montagu
Image
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Ashley Montagu