"Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings."

-- Peter Singer

#People Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.”
“The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.”
“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”

Source : William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell
“Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.”
“The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.”
“Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.”
“The art of illusion is grace itself.”
“Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.”

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