Ancestors Quote by Mark Pagel Download Open image “You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.” — Mark Pagel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestors Been Greedy Here Our Savages You
“I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. The balance is delicate in the extreme. I know that few of you who read my words have ever thought about your ancestors this way. It has not occurred to you that your ancestors were survivors and that the survival itself sometimes involved savage decisions, a kind of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors. — William Kean Seymour Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?' — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language. — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it. — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...… — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts,… — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
As a woman of color, I always pay homage to my ancestors and elders - in the industry in particular - who have paved… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
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