Animal kingdom Quote by Friedrich Engels

“Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.”

— Mark Twain

The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing…

— George Reisman

“Thus by an unprejudiced observation of the animal kingdom, we reach the conclusion that wherever society exists at all, this principle may be found:…

— Peter Kropotkin

“He [William Jennings Bryan] recognized that what Darwin proposed on the biological level, when applied on the societal level, might legitimize an ideology that…

— Tony Campolo

“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same districts, require…

— Robert Harris

“When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he exposed the world to a momentous discovery . For the first time…

— Jeff Schweitzer

“the Darwinian world of nature, however, which they claim is the only one, there can be no such things as rights, either for humans…

— C.R. Hallpike

“But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the naturally selfish and exploitative tendencies…

— Richard Dawkins

Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve the common…

— Robert H. Frank

“Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity…

— George Orwell

“In short, we evolved, like other animals, to win the reproduction game. That contest has a single aim, to leave as many descendants as…

— Jared Diamond

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

— Albert Einstein