“every man must be supposed to be a knave” David Hume 1711 - 1776
“all the beings, including humans, have developed through natural selection and survival of the fittest” Charles Darwin 1809 - 1882
“We are self-developers and growing into individuals is our most essential purpose” John Stuart Mill 1806 - 1873
“men are not naturally enemies” Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712 - 1778
“We are moral creatures “We are moral creatures. We have a moral faculty that enables us to overcome our self interests and treat people as ends, rather than means” Immanuel Kant 1724 - 1804
“The brutes do not share with man the power of deliberate choice… the power of reason” John Locke 1588 - 1679
“The life of natural man is poor, solitary, nasty, brutish, and short” Thomas Hobbes 1588 - 1679