Grace Rodriguez

“We humans have cooperative, selfless and loving moral instincts, the voice or expression of which we call our conscience—which is the complete opposite of competitive, selfish and aggressive instincts. As Charles Darwin said, "The moral sense… affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

“Finding understanding of our psychologically troubled human condition has actually been what the efforts of every human who has ever lived has been dedicated to achieving and has contributed to finding.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

“Call it the feeling of love that connects us. Call it the creative force that drives us to transform. Call it our energy. Call it our capacity to give. Call it grace, or even divinity, something that allows for those things to exist within us as individuals and between us each time we connect.”
― Marya Hornbacher, Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power

“Bonobos provide the perfect evidence for how our distant ape ancestors became cooperative and loving.”
― Jeremy Griffith, The Interview: How We Can Finally End All the Turmoil & Suffering in the World!