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“I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.”

Humans Lying Social Kindness Violence Human Nature Thousand Ten Ordinary Claims Response Bounds Stability Aggressive Usual Rooted Ignored Frequency Acts Of Kindness Spades Geniality

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church. It is a State conceived as a contractual organism long before Rousseau ever thought of such a thing, and animated by an ethical ideal which regards man not as an earth-rooted creature, defined by this or that portion of the earth, but as a spiritual being understood in terms of a social mechanism, and possessing rights and duties as a living factor in that mechanism.”

“Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny, that even as his face got whiter and whiter his music got Blacker and Blacker. His soul got more deeply rooted in the existential agony and the profound social grief that Black people are heir to.”

People Soul Faces Social Black Grief Possibility Profound Deny Features Black People Rooted Agony Existential Geography Heirs Spooky

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.”

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Book:Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics

Source: Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics

“But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.”

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Book:Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President