Quotes about "Diversity & Inclusion"

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. ”

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. ”

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream. ”

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world. ”

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution. ”

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. ”

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. ”

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. ”

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal. ”

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats? ”