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Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (June 28, 1905 - November 26, 1999) β born Israel Ehrenberg β was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.
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βThe family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.β
βAnd we begin to understand that the goal of life is to die young β as late as possible!β
β[C]ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.β
βThe world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.β
βThe omelet called βraceβ has no existence outside the statistical frying- pan in which it has been reduced by the heat of the anthropological imagination.β
βBigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of oneβs beliefs.β
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Ashley Montagu on Certainty
Ashley Montagu on Race (human categorisation)
βThe omelet called βraceβ has no existence outside the statistical frying- pan in which it has been reduced by the heat of the anthropological imagination.β
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About Ashley Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (June 28, 1905 - November 26, 1999) β born Israel Ehrenberg β was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.