Frans de Waal Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

  Frans de Waal

  Motivation, Inspiration, Compassion

• Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

  Frans de Waal

  Empathy, Morality, Unthinkable

  "Science overturns view of humans as naturally 'nasty'". phys.org. February 20, 2012.

• Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

  Frans de Waal

  May, Morality

  "He studies where morals come from". Interview with Kelly Murray, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2013.

• The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

  Frans de Waal

  Compassion, Justice, Pillars

  "Monkeys Join Wall Street Protest" by Frans de Waal, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2011.

• Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

  Frans de Waal

  Self, Morality, Categorical Imperative

• It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.

  Frans de Waal

  Way, Helping, Morality

  Frans de Waal (2013). “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates”, p.162, W. W. Norton & Company

• To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at the top of a tower to declare that the rest of the building is irrelevant, that the precious concept of "tower" ought to be reserved for the summit.

  Frans de Waal

  Roots, Arriving, Would Be

  Frans de Waal (2009). “Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved”, p.181, Princeton University Press

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