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Violent Quotes by Steven Pinker
- For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to…
- Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
- By all measures men are the more violent gender.
- Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.
- We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
- I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress…
- A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies…
- Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who…
- Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.
- As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
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