This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their mortality and to convince them that the afterlife itself is under the personal management of the particular gods they are promoting. The self-protective urges of their worshippers will do the rest.More Desmond Morris quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.More Desmond Morris quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.More Desmond Morris quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.More Desmond Morris quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.More Desmond Morris quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]