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"Specific grievances wear out; the unchangingness of group hostilities marks them as fraudulent. They are not responses to real external dangers, but fantasies. We erect a glass at the border of our own group, and see our own anger reflected against the darkness behind it."

"Moral philosophy, unlike straight moralizing, arises from and thrives on plurality of values. Yet perhaps even moral philosophy has been too ready to endorse moral surgery, too eager to simplify man." -Beast and Man

"The world really is too complex to be explained by any single formula. That, however, does not make it sensible to talk as if all suggestions about it are equally valuable or valid." -Utopias, Dolphins and Computers

"Our need for each other – our need for all the normal intercourse of human life – is not a weakness but a strength...Of course our dependencies are dangerous, but who wants to live safely like a billiard ball or a doll that never leaves its package?" -The Solitary Self

"Although each of us often needs solitude, in our essence we are not totally separate beings. At heart we are both separate and joined, and the interaction between these two conditions is what gives us both most of our joys and most of our problems." -The Solitary Self

"Obsessed with success, with examinations, tests, and record-breaking, with competitive sport, trade, and manufacture, we have drifted into behaving as if life were not worth living except at the top of the dominance hierarchy." -Beast and Man

"What bias, then, is now misleading us? I am suggesting that it is an unbridled, exaggerated individualism, taken for granted as much by the left as by the right--an unrealistic acceptance of competitiveness as central to human nature." -Evolution as a Religion

"The way in which we think of ourselves - the picture we form of our essential nature - directly affects the way we live." -Heart and Mind

"Inequalities above one's own level tend to be visible: those below it to be hidden." -Animals and Why They Matter

"Central to thinking about animals is the idea of community: a genuine unity of beings which are important to each other." -Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley: An Introduction #marymidgley