Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.Steven Pinker
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.Steven Pinker
Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.Steven Pinker
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.Henry David Thoreau
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.Nelson Mandela
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.Simone de Beauvoir
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.Simone de Beauvoir
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.Anne Frank
