Quotes by : Steven Pinker

In the foreign country, we call the past, crucifixion was a common punishment. It was invented by the....

Educated people, of course, know that perception, cognition, language, and emotion are rooted in the....

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to....

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured....

The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance....

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim....

What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings....

God, who is omnipotent, could have softened Pharaoh’s heart, but he hardens it instead, which gives....

A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in....

Instead of asking, “Why is there war?” we might ask, “Why is there peace?” We can obsess not....