Steven Pinker Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people's interests into account, who's dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality.

  Steven Pinker

  Atheist, Knowing, Views

• I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

  Steven Pinker

  Thinking, Games, Play

  "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 1999.

• Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Struggle, Compassion

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