"We are built to be effective animals, not…" — Robert Wright

"We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones."

— Robert Wright

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19 Quotes by Robert Wright

Robert Wright has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.
Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information…
Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth,…
Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is…
God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond…
Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep…
Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver
Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.
Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re…
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given…
Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when…
Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And…

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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