Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
FRANS DE WAAL What is the evolutionary value of blushing? It seems not to be to our advantage to do it, to involun...
FRANS DE WAAL When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we l...
FRANS DE WAAL If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, th...
FRANS DE WAAL If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of othe...
FRANS DE WAAL The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new mean...
FRANS DE WAAL Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circu...
FRANS DE WAAL One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biol...
FRANS DE WAAL Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspe...
FRANS DE WAAL Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but...
FRANS DE WAAL I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, ...
FRANS DE WAAL Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they...
FRANS DE WAAL Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the c...
FRANS DE WAAL The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditi...
FRANS DE WAAL Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far en...
FRANS DE WAAL I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've alw...
FRANS DE WAAL Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neuron...
FRANS DE WAAL It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against...
FRANS DE WAAL Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their tru...
FRANS DE WAAL I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all...
FRANS DE WAAL Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, a...
FRANS DE WAAL A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes...
FRANS DE WAAL Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the ori...
FRANS DE WAAL If one bird foraging in a flock on the ground suddenly takes off, all other birds will take off imme...
FRANS DE WAAL The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtle...
FRANS DE WAAL The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, bas...
FRANS DE WAAL Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. ...
FRANS DE WAAL You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human soc...
FRANS DE WAAL In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being k...
FRANS DE WAAL It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. O...
FRANS DE WAAL Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, rang...
FRANS DE WAAL There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas ani...
FRANS DE WAAL Following rules is, of course, the reason the dog is man's best friend is because the dog follow...
FRANS DE WAAL Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test t...
FRANS DE WAAL Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is...
FRANS DE WAAL I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.
FRANS DE WAAL The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.
FRANS DE WAAL We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the ac...
FRANS DE WAAL The original form is the contagion of fear and alarm. You're in a flock of birds. One bird suddenly ...
FRANS DE WAAL I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looke...
FRANS DE WAAL There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I pro...
FRANS DE WAAL The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.
FRANS DE WAAL If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks...
FRANS DE WAAL Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.
FRANS DE WAAL The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human lau...
FRANS DE WAAL The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy i...
FRANS DE WAAL This book [...] demonstrates something we had already suspected on the grounds of the close connecti...
FRANS DE WAAL Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists expe...
FRANS DE WAAL He stands with his hands in his pockets, well-dressed and self-assured, with his life before him and...
EDMUND DE WAAL There is something about that burning of all those letters that gives me pause: why should everythin...
EDMUND DE WAAL And someone turns out the lights in the library, as if being in the dark will make them invisible, b...
EDMUND DE WAAL Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth beco...
FRANS LANTING Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
FRANS LANTING I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvemen...
FRANS LANTING Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,0...
FRANS LANTING A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're a...
FRANS LANTING If a substantial proportion of the 80 000 Taxi Recap vehicles due for delivery over the next five ye...
FRANS CLOETE I have to clarify that the number of the dead victims discovered as of Friday was not 55 as was repo...
FRANS SALEM We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.
FRANS KELLENDONK I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many wor...
FRANS LANTING As a prediction, I see Myrtle Beach starting an upward turn in perception, quality of vacations, and...
FRANS MUSTERT If this happens, then the whole purpose of the A-tax . is basically moot. The system was designed to...
FRANS MUSTERT They said they were a for-profit organization, and you can't make a profit using accommodations taxe...
FRANS MUSTERT As a destination resort, you must always search for ways to exceed your guests' expectations. We fel...
FRANS MUSTERT They would have done their homework and it will be a tough battle up front. Yes, we will focus on th...
FRANS LUDEKE There's no doubt that our backs had plenty of opportunities thus far in the tournament.
FRANS LUDEKE I know that one good performance that will turn our season around is just around the corner.
FRANS LUDEKE We thought he would recover and it looked good. But at training on Monday the injury was aggravated ...
FRANS LUDEKE That's definitely an area (forward play) of strength for us. Wherever you gain advantage on the fiel...
FRANS LUDEKE We don't think about that. We focus on our game and what we have to do to be successful and today we...
FRANS LUDEKE Fortunately we picked up no further serious injuries and a number of guys came back into the fold to...
FRANS LUDEKE We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.
FRANS LUDEKE We have learned from our mistakes in the qualifying round. We are prepared to grind this one through...
FRANS LUDEKE International comparisons show that implementing better farming techniques is crucial to reducing th...
FRANS CRONJE While AIDS and erratic weather patterns have been identified as aggravating food insecurity, these f...
FRANS CRONJE The South African truck market, coming off the back of an outstanding 2005 annual result, has contin...
FRANS CLOETE The upturn in MCV sales, which first became apparent around the middle of 2004, is clearly the drivi...
FRANS CLOETE The sales total of 2,028 units reported to the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of S...
FRANS CLOETE By the end of October, the cumulative year-to-date total of 22 732 units has already overtaken, by 3...
FRANS CLOETE This welcome recovery in HCV sales indicates a far more progressive approach towards fleet managemen...
FRANS CLOETE Ever since the turn of the Millennium, we have experienced consistent, and sometimes spectacular gro...
FRANS CLOETE The even spread of the growth across these groupings is pleasing evidence that fleet expansion and r...
FRANS CLOETE The major objective of the truck supply industry at the present time is focused on the provision of ...
FRANS CLOETE The lob pass wasn't there. And once I caught it, the second (defender) came running over. They neutr...
FRANS STEYN He is the best Division II player in the country. ... I've seen some good Division I point guards (S...
FRANS STEYN We were hoping we'd see them. We'll be ready for them.
FRANS STEYN The first half, I was really worn out. The second half, I came out and played a lot better. I was gl...
FRANS STEYN As of Wednesday evening, five navy vessels have picked up 118 people from the sea, while one man was...
FRANS SALEM A lot of people are knocking on my door.
FRANS VAN HOUTEN Scale matters, to get the right ratio of R&D over sales.
FRANS VAN HOUTEN Scale is important to get the right ratio of research and development over sales.
FRANS VAN HOUTEN These price points can be met.
FRANS VAN HOUTEN This (growth forecast) means that there's a foundation in the market. It's not spectacular growth bu...
FRANS VAN HOUTEN There are various merger and acquisition options that we can and will explore.
FRANS VAN HOUTEN There are various M&A options we will explore.
FRANS VAN HOUTEN Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
DE KNUDSON Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE) Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, ...
CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBEOUF DE VOLNEY When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
YVONNE DE CARLO Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
YVONNE DE CARLO I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become ...
YVONNE DE CARLO I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid t...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actres...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and ha...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfri...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
INDIA DE BEAUFORT School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long p...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE