Far Quote by Frans de Waal Download Open image “Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.” — Frans de Waal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Far Goal Goals Need Religion Superior Understanding
Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Religion, throughout the years, has become a very oppressive thing that doesn't allow people to get to know the God it was created to… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all. — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
I don't care what your religion is, as long as it doesn't chastise anybody that's not part of it. — Jon Gries Copy Share Image
Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services. — Henry Norris Russell Copy Share Image
Religion can be a good thing, but basically the way I look at it is that it provides a moral code, common sense. But… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way… — Brian Greene 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
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons… — Sally Yates Copy Share Image
Talking to my trainer Eric Turner like my second or third amateur fight, I'm like how far can I make it? He said you… — Ovince Saint Preux Copy Share Image
Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I have two or three shows that I follow, and even those are few and far, when I can see them on Netflix. I… — Alan Ritchson Copy Share Image
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph. — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic… — John Legend Copy Share Image
