Rick Staten

“The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“A thing of worth is what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.”
― John Ruskin

“All virtues have a shadow.”
― Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You