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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."
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"We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine."
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"Nobody wants great things for you. They all want you to be something they deem important for them."
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"If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing."
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"The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans."
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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
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"To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light"
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"The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm"."
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"Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller."
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"Like preachers, I sell vision,like perfume ads, desireor its facsimile. Like jokesor war, it's all in the timing.I sell men back their worse suspicions:that everything's for sale."
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Explore more quotes by Steven Pinker
"Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights."
Ethics
"States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around a quarter of the average death rate of nonstate societies, and less than a tenth of that for the most violent one."
History
"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
Art
"Much can be gained be contrasting a theory with its alternatives, even ones that look too extreme to be true. You can really understand something when you know what it is not."
Learning
"Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with."
Society
"The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions."
Science
"People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It’s hard to follow the news without feeling a mounting dread of terrorist attacks, a clash of civilizations, and the use of weapons of mass destruction. But we often forget the dangers that filled the news a few decades ago and become blasé about the good fortune that so many of them have fizzled out."
Awareness
"Can reason lead us in directions that are good or decent or moral? After all, you pointed out that reason is just a means to an end, and the end depends on the reasoner's passions. Reason can lay out a road map to peace and harmony if the reasoner wants peace and harmony, but it can also lay out a road map to conflict and strife if the reasoner delights in conflict and strife. Can reason force the reasoner to want less cruelty and waste?"
Philosophy
"Many people implicitly believe in the Hydraulic Theory of Violence: that humans harbor an inner drive toward aggression (a death instinct or thirst for blood), which builds up inside us and must periodically be discharged. Nothing could be further from a contemporary scientific understanding of the psychology of violence. Aggression is not a single motive, let alone a mounting urge. It is the output of several psychological systems that differ in their environmental triggers, their internal logic, their neurobiological basis, and their social distribution."
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"I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless you identify the learning mechanisms. And these have some genetic basis."
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