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Book cover for The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
The belief that violence has increased suggests that the world we made has contaminated us, perhaps irretrievably. The belief that it has decreased suggests that we started off nasty and that the artifices of civilization have moved us in a ...more
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Steven Pinker
“Though truth-telling sheds no blood, it requires a painful emotional sacrifice on the part of the confessors in the form of shame, guilt, and a unilateral disarmament of their chief moral weapon, the claim to innocence.”
Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity

Paramahansa Yogananda
“Outward frailty has mental origin; in a vicious circle, the habit-bound body thwarts the mind.”
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

Amish Tripathi
“To the proud, the pretence of noble compliance is better than admittance of failure.”
Amish Tripathi, Scion of Ikshvaku

Paramahansa Yogananda
“unwritten law for the truth seeker is patience; a master may purposely make a test of one’s eagerness to meet him. This psychological ruse is freely employed in the West by doctors and dentists!”
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

Steven Pinker
“Finally, moralized infractions are punishable. If one believes that murder is wrong, one is not just entitled to see a murderer punished, but one is obligated to make it happen. One may not, as we say, let someone get away with murder. Now just substitute “idolatry” or “homosexuality” or “blasphemy” or “subversion” or “indecency” or “insubordination” for “murder,” and you can see how the human moral sense can be a major force for evil.”
Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity

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