Truth Quote by Steven Pinker — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people’s interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise.”

“... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.”

“There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.”

“We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.”

“I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.”

“The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.”

“The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.”