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Social Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is…
- 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,…
- Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
- Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is…
- Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast…
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan
- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet