Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
Konrad LorenzVisualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.
Konrad LorenzIn nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.
Konrad Lorenz