Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality from more modern principles.

It Begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men.

The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception

Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.

So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces one’s chances of being a victim of violence fivefold.

A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times.

The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.

The essence of a culture of honor is that it does not sanction predatory or instrumental violence, but only retaliation after an insult or other mistreatment.

Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination.

Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.

The rainbow is the pot of gold to those who observe.

We must cooperate to turn this country around

The meaning of everything is the meaning you give it, and your experiences are what you say they are.

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

Our response to an event is more important than the event itself.

I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I hated the soup and felt little for the can.

The greatest gift that you can give to others and to yourself is time. Embrace the gift of time whether you give it or receive it.