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There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace…

— Steven Pinker

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that…

— Arthur Koestler

“Humans are not innately good (just as they are not innately evil), but they come equipped with motives that can orient them away from…

— Steven Pinker

“Nice people who are beginning to live to a great age - as it were - react with such revulsion to the burgeoning horrors…

— Iain M. Banks

“(It can be argued that the current rise of serial killers can be perhaps attributed to a new evolutionary prerogative for the demise of…

— Peter Vronsky

“This trait has direct animal precursors – namely, the contests between competing individuals and groups that, in many species besides our own, may be…

— Jared Diamond

The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social animals like…

— Frans de Waal

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people…

— Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

— Konrad Lorenz

“Never blame the man: his hard-pressed Ancestors formed him: the other anthropoid apes were safe In the great southern rain-forest and hardly changed In…

— Robinson Jeffers

Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill people slowly and secretively.…

— Tim Field

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of humanity's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying by these adjectives that such behaviour is characteristic of…

— Storr