Politics Quote by Steven Pinker

“After all, we know that the foraging societies in which human beings evolved were small-scale, highly egalitarian groups who shared almost everything. There is…

— Christopher Ryan

“Some behaviors that seem normal to contemporary people (and which are therefore readily assumed to be universal) would quickly destroy many small-scale foraging societies,…

— Christopher Ryan

“Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.”

— Joe Queenan

So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful…

— Noam Chomsky

“Well, you can't go about having blood feuds and stabbing each other like Crosicans or the Mafia," said the Colonel. "Say what you like,…

— Agatha Christie

It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure people who…

— Daniel Everett

In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation there is…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

“Although the emotional and intellectual differences between the world’s peoples as individuals are slight enough, even a small shift in social behavior can generate…

— Nicholas Wade

“The predators may respond to the defensive reprisals of their prey as if they were the ones under attack, and experience a moralized wrath…

— Steven Pinker

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation…

— Charlotte Bronte

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

— John Milton

The best revenge in the world is success.

— Suge Knight