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Ashley Montagu
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“The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.”
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview on "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson" promoting the latest edition of his book The Natural Superiority of Women (orig. 1952)
“The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.”
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Man: His first Million Years, (1957); this quote begins the penultimate chapter of Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
“Among both the Northern and Eastern Hamites are to be found some of the most beautiful types of humanity.”
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And we begin to understand that the goal of life is to die young — as late as possible!”
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.”
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ashley Montagu (1981, p. 156), cited in: Thomas J. Sweeney (1989), Adlerian counseling: a practical approach for a new decade, p. 54
“Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.”
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.”
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[C]ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.”
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mutilated Humanity" (1991)
“The omelet called “race” has no existence outside the statistical frying- pan in which it has been reduced by the heat of the anthropological imagination.”
Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ashley Montagu, quoted in Chakrabarti, D. K., 1997. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 62-3