Ashley Montagu Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Ashley Montagu:

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu

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

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

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

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

Ashley Montagu

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Ashley Montagu

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

Ashley Montagu

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montagu

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Ashley Montagu

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

Ashley Montagu

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

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

Ashley Montagu

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Ashley Montagu