Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.Steven Pinker
I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.Steven Pinker
Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.Steven Pinker
A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.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
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.John D. Rockefeller
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.Karl Marx
