Author: Steven Pinker

Quotes

It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind.

It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind.

- Steven Pinker

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

- Steven Pinker

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

- Steven Pinker

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

- Steven Pinker

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