Ashley Montagu

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#family-relationships #society #sociology #family

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

— Ashley Montagu

#enjoy #moments #seize #surprise #take

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

— Ashley Montagu

#contributor #country #family #gets #happens

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

— Ashley Montagu

#biological #fact #natural #reality #socially

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

#causes #certain #chronic #direction #gravitate

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

#been #cure #disease #doctor #health

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

— Ashley Montagu

#behave #beings #creatures #human #human beings

The idea is to die young as late as possible. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#die #idea #late #possible #young

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

#born #development #every #fulfillment #his

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#chicago #described #edition #hell #pocket