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“Relatives share a substantial proportion of their genes. Each selfish gene therefore has its loyalties divided between different bodies.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

“We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmer to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. Though I have known it for years, I never seem to get fully used to it.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

“The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene