Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

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

Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

We, who think like animals living in small groups, must structure a global world. We believe in universal human rights and believe racism and war are wrong. On the other hand, it is our nature to be cooperative and loving almost exclusively with the members of the group to which we feel we belong.

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.

We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.