We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.

When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back.

Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.

Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.