Quotes by Ashley Montagu

Anthropologist and essayist, born wednesday june 28, 1905 in London (United Kingdom), died friday november 26, 1999 in Princeton, New Jersey (United States)

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
Ashley Montagu
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    Human communication, as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols, it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection.
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      Posted by: Andrea Manfrč
      The great danger of our age are the cultural differences that the existing cultural differences between various ethnicities tend to muffle or to be absorbed and cancel themselves out too quickly... the history of our species teaches us that cultural differences are history's creating force.
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