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
Topics: Potential
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
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
—Ashley Montagu
Topics: Science, Spirituality
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, don’t ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.
—Ashley Montagu
The Good Book—one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied.
—Ashley Montagu
Topics: Bible
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
—Ashley Montagu
Topics: Ethics, Culture
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
—Ashley Montagu
Topics: Age, Death
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
Topics: Doctors
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- Eric Bentley British-American Drama Critic
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