107 Quotes by Robert Sapolsky

Primates are really well designed to see who is not keeping up their end of the deal.

Baboons who have friends do much better in terms of their physiology. And if that applies to a baboon, it could certainly apply for a human.

When humans invented inequality and socioeconomic status, they came up with a dominance hierarchy that subordinates like nothing the primate world has ever seen before.

When you've wised up enough, there is a very clear conclusion that you have to reach after a while, which is, at the end of the day, it is really impossible for one person to make a difference.

If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it.

For 99 percent of the beasts on this planet, stress is about three minutes of screaming in terror after which it's either over with or you're over with. And we turn it on for 30-year mortgages.

Primates are hardwired for us/them dichotomies. Our brains detect them in less than 100 milliseconds.

To do good science, you've got to work really, really hard.

Go get yourself stressed all the time and the common cold becomes more common.