Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.

To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at the top of a tower to declare that the rest of the building is irrelevant, that the precious concept of "tower" ought to be reserved for the summit.

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

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

We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles that lose much of their structure when the sea of knowledge washes over them. They turn into hills, leveled ever more, until we are back to where evolutionary theory always leads us: a gently sloping beach.

When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.

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