Ashley Montagu Quotes

1905–1999 England

Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (June 28, 1905 - November 26, 1999) — born Israel Ehrenberg — was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.

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The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

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.

The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

And we begin to understand that the goal of life is to die young — as late as possible!

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

Among both the Northern and Eastern Hamites are to be found some of the most beautiful types of humanity.

[C]ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

Mutilated Humanity (1991)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ashley Montagu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.