Steven Pinker Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system regulated by agreements and norms. Anything that deflates the concept of dominance is likely to drive down the frequency of fights between individuals and wars.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Fighting, Agreement

• We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Views, Law

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.480, Penguin

• As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

  Steven Pinker

  Commitment, Equality, People

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