

“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene

“You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene

“We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene

“It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene

“Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
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