The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.
The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken. - Ashley Montagu
The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
- Ashley Montagu
Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as … - Ashley Montagu
Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as …
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 what they believe… - Ashley Montagu
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 what they believe…
The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time. - Ashley Montagu
The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
Hatred is love frustrated. - Ashley Montagu
Hatred is love frustrated.
For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value. - Ashley Montagu
For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.
The idea is to die young as late as possible. - Ashley Montagu
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. - Ashley Montagu
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings o… - Ashley Montagu
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings o…
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