Aggressive Quote by Jerome Kagan

“Then there are the secondary, mostly “social” emotions, such as anxiety, grief, guilt, pride, vengeance, and love. These may be unique to humans—hence, at…

— Scott Atran

“The argument has long been made that we humans are by nature compassionate and empathic despite the occasional streak of meanness, but torrents of…

— Daniel Goleman

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial…

— Neill Blomkamp

Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may…

— Patricia Churchland

There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or…

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an…

— Peter Singer

Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the…

— Steven Pinker

It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social…

— Peter Singer

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

— Charles Darwin

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our…

— Michael Shermer

I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples…

— Frans de Waal

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

— Tom Stoppard