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War Quotes by Steven Pinker
- When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To…
- 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…
- Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
- Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
- 'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated…
- Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating…
- 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…
More War Quotes
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. — William Shakespeare