"Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves."

-- Jonathan Haidt

#Social Quotes #Primates Quotes

“Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.”
“Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story.”

Source : "Award-winning Musician Rachael Yamagata: Gratitude for Mornings, Music, and Mom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.”
“I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. Externally, you might make choices that are very public and very open but internally that was a struggle.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.”
“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”

Source : Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.433, Penguin
“We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.”
“Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.”

You may also like:

David Sloan Wilson
Professor
Emile Durkheim
Sociologist
Lawrence Kohlberg
Psychologist
Martin Seligman
Psychologist
Paul Bloom
Professor
Richard Shweder
Anthropologist
Sam Harris
Author
Steven Pinker
Psychologist
Greg Lukianoff