The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

- 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…

- 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

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

- Ashley Montagu

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

- Ashley Montagu

Hatred is love frustrated.

- 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

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 idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

- Ashley Montagu