Category: Ashley Montagu

“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

“It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one’s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.”
-Ashley Montagu

“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.”
-Ashley Montagu

“The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.”
-Ashley Montagu

“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family ‘gets together’ alone.”
-Ashley Montagu