The whole point of international terrorism is to shock the world with the most horrific spectacle imaginable.

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.

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.

So much to love, so much to do.So much to care just for you.

It's just incrediable if I play a game, I think don't I?If I watch a film, I just finish a book...

Peace if possible but truth at any rate.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

Because I'm a democrat! The will of the people is sovereign.

Our work must remain open and transparent so that we hear the voices of all

The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don't trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.

Anything that doesn't bore me I think is doable because it's keeping me awake.

You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy