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The only measure of what you believe is what you do.

Ashley Montagu

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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
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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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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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... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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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 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.
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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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It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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