Character Quote by Frans de Waal Download Open image “The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.” — Frans de Waal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Compassion Human Humans Justice Morality Pillars
Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Good moral values are mostly molded from a place where love, faith and hope exist. — Arsenio V Manalo Jr Copy Share Image
It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Compassion, empathy and love are the real pillars we need to build with in ourselves to become human.” — Loknath Copy Share Image
“At their best, all religious, philosophical, and ethical traditions are based on the principle of compassion. I” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“on August 16, 1996, when an eight-year-old female gorilla named Binti Jua helped a three-year-old boy who had fallen eighteen feet into the primate… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“humans are a strange lot. We have the power to analyze and explore the world around us, yet panic as soon as the evidence… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
