90 Quotes by Ashley Montagu

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

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    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.

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

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    One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

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    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.

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    There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

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    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.

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