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“Positive-sum games also change the incentives for violence. If you’re trading favors or surpluses with someone, your trading partner suddenly becomes more valuable to you alive than dead.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“If Gosar really believed there was enough fraud in the Arizona election to overturn it and throw out millions of votes, I wondered how he could have voted—as he did less than 72 hours earlier—to recognize his own victory and officially seat himself.”
― Liz Cheney, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

“The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“while Harry Anslinger claimed to be fighting the Mafia, he was in fact transferring a massive and highly profitable industry into their exclusive control.”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs