There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.Steven Pinker
The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.Steven Pinker
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.Henry David Thoreau
No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.Mark Zuckerberg
In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.Jordan Peterson
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.Jordan Peterson
We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.Jordan Peterson
Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.Linus Torvalds
