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

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.

As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed.