David Pearce Quotes

#1. I never wanted to express my independence by dressing in a particularly masculine way or appear particularly boyish.

Kristina Schroder

#2. It is easy to romanticise, say, tigers or lions and cats. We admire their magnificent beauty, strength and agility. But we would regard their notional human counterparts as wanton psychopaths of the worst kind.

David Pearce

#3. Plant hope's seed within your heart
For hope's where happiness can start.

Ilchi Lee

#4. I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.

David Pearce

#5. People aren't born good or bad. It's the way you live your life that matters and how many people you inspire and empower after you're gone.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#6. Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#7. What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

Curtis Sittenfeld

#8. Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?

David Pearce