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Death Quotes by Steven Pinker
- In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and…
- It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes…
- If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both.…
- The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in…
- Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident,…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden