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Ashley Montagu Quotes


A British-American anthropologist and humanist, of Jewish ancestry, who popularized topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.
Montague Francis Ashley Montagu (born Israel Ehrenberg on June 28, 1905, London, Great Britain - died November 26, 1999, Princeton, New Jersey, United States) was a British-American anthropologist and humanist, of Jewish ancestry, who popularized topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. He was the rapporteur (appointed investigator), during 1950, for the UNESCO statement The Race Question. As a young man he changed his name to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". After relocating to the United States he used the name "Ashley Montagu".

Here are some famous quotes by Ashley Montagu.

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 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.

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Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.

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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.

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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.