The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.

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.

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

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.

Take advantage of losing your job by making it an opportunity to find a better one

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Aim at a high mark and you will hit it.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.

There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy.

It’s not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.

We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.