"When we are bad, we are worse than……" — Frans de Waal

"When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more altruistic than any primate that I know."

— Frans de Waal

86 Quotes by Frans de Waal

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

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