Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities…

As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to…

— Charles Darwin

Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason,…

— Charles Darwin

Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle…

— Charles Darwin

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial…

— Charles Darwin

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

— Charles Darwin

“ All of us, whether vivisector or vegan, have been subject to mechanisms undercutting sympathy for animals. How long and to what extent we…

— Brian Luke

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

— John Ruskin

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The co-called moral compass is a part of the human cognition, and when that compass comes into action through human behavior, it turns an…

— Abhijit Naskar

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our…

— Azar Nafisi

And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it…

— John Stuart Mill

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“like the social instincts of chimps, those of humans were adapted only for small intimate groups. When the group grew too large, its social…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There is no conflict between the individual and the social instincts, any more than there is between the heart and the lungs: the one…

— Nick Riggle

“The individual and social instincts,—the one a most potent factor for individual endeavor, for growth, aspiration, self-realization; the other an equally potent factor for…

— Emma Goldman