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A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man…
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Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
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Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.
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Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant…
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And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.
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If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband…
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We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on…
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We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on…
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Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man…
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On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim…
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Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
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We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their…
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It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
— Dan Quayle
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When you become completely loving and kind without fear and without thought of harming others, you graudate from the Earth school. That…
— Gary Zukav
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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
— Epicurus
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Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
— Thomas Jefferson
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An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our…
— Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
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Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may…
— William James
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Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from…
— Gautama Buddha
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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
— Hesiod
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Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today…
— Jose Mujica
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