Morals from nature (Kellogg)
July 27th, 2007 | Published in Morality, Quotes, Religion, Science
Some men who call themselves pessimists because they cannot read good into the operations of nature forget that they cannot read evil. In morals the law of competition no more justifies personal, official, or national selfishness or brutality than the law of gravitation justifies the shooing of a bird.
–Vernon Kellogg, quoted in Stephen Jay Gould, “William Jennings Brian’s Last Campaign” in Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History (1991), p. 430