If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
CHARLES DARWINBesides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Some call it evolution, And others call it God.
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us – of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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