"Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is……" — Frans de Waal

"Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth."

— Frans de Waal

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86 Quotes by Frans de Waal

Frans de Waal has 86 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.
Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions.…
As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler…
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give…
You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.
The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with…
If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they…
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between…
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or…
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in…
If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is…
There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

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This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest… — Gerard Arpey
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part… — John James Audubon
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree… — Lord Byron
All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. — Lloyd Alexander
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. — Pablo Casals
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that… — Willa Cather
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I… — Judy Chicago
Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In… — Alan Cohen
Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that… — Heinz Pagels

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