Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.

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

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.

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

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

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.