Quotes from Ashley Montagu

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

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

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record - and its potential damage to the quality of human life and the fabric of civilized society is beyond calculation. For that reason this sickness of the soul might well be called the 'Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.' Its more conventional name, of course, is dehumanization.

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.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

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.

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance.