Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.Steven Pinker
The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.Steven Pinker
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.Steven Pinker
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.Steven Pinker
Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.Steven Pinker
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.Karl Marx
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.Karl Marx
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.Karl Marx
