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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

People don’t believe the truth but believe what they constantly hear.

I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.

The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.