Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.Steven Pinker
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.Steven Pinker
As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.Steven Pinker
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.Karl Marx
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?Henry David Thoreau
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.C. S. Lewis
