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Anthropologist

Ashley Montagu was a prominent British anthropologist known for his extensive research on human behavior and culture. His work encompassed a wide range of fields, including race, gender, and social structures, and had a profound impact on the development of anthropology.

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

Men Humanity Mankind Intensity His Love

Author:Ashley Montagu

“It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle”

Men Facts Culture Principles Integrity Mark Ethical

Book:The Cultured Man

Source: The Cultured Man

“Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.”

Knows Men Needs Writing Primaries Remove

Book:The natural superiority of women

Source: The natural superiority of women

“The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.”

Men Artist Humanity Artistic

Book:The Cultured Man

Source: The Cultured Man

“Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.”

Men Love Has Beens Sleep Institutions Permanent Our Time Curves Distribution Convenience Seductive

Book:The natural superiority of women

Source: The natural superiority of women

“The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.”

Men Whole Women Evidence Superiors

Book:The natural superiority of women

Source: The natural superiority of women

“Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.”

Men Labor Pounds Nonlinear

Author:Ashley Montagu

“It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.”

Men Humans Teach Function

Book:The natural superiority of women

Source: The natural superiority of women

About the Author

Born: June 28, 1905
Died: November 26, 1999
Known for: Anthropologist
Quotes: 69

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