Capable Quote by Richard Dawkins Download Open image “Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.” — Richard Dawkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capable Humans Moral Moral responsibility Nature of man Reasoning Responsibility
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral code to… — Jasper T. Scott Copy Share Image
“We’ve always had strong moral responsibility, or we should have had, to other species,’ says Richard Twine, the British sociologist. ‘We just haven’t exercised… — Emily Anthes Copy Share Image
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a… — John Taylor Copy Share Image