Violence Quote by Anonymous

I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look at Steven…

— Martin Amis

“Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Sapiens…

— Timothy Ferriss

People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms…

— Mary Alice

Pelosi abuses her power in ways that once were unthinkable. Her speakership has been the antithesis of Lincoln's entreaty to 'the better angels of…

— Miranda Devine

“all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better…

— Abraham Lincoln

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

— Jim Leach

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will…

— Abraham Lincoln

By celebrating death, even of someone as evil as bin Laden, we let our worst impulses trump what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels…

— Jonathan Zimmerman

“Only a visionary leadership that can motivate "the better angels of our nature," as Lincoln said, and activate possibilities for a freer, more efficient,…

— Cornel West

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affections.…

— Stephen Mansfield

If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.

— Matt Damon

Anyone else reading The Better Angels of Our Nature? Butter, this book.

— John Cho