Ashley Montagu

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

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. ”

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago. ”

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. ”

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. ”

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ”

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. ”

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

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

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. ”