Quotes by : Steven Pinker

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes....

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

The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech....

When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.

No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate....

Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights,....

Many people implicitly believe in the Hydraulic Theory of Violence: that humans harbor an inner drive....

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started....

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other....

When people have different ideas about which of these four modes of interacting applies to a current....