Frans de Waal Quotes

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

Frans de Waal

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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.

Taron Egerton
- Life
- Amazing
- Cool
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

Warren Farrell
- Men
- Women
- Liberation
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Karl Kraus
- Nothing
- Something
- Say
How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

Valerie Plame
- Important
- Power
- Hope
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Samuel Butler
- Family
- Money
- Bad
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb