The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one’s causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen.

It's a cycle... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs.

That's when I decided once and for all that we were doomed. It was that or I would die right there and then.

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.

I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

Oliver Stone. Is that not enough?

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .