“If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other pe...” — Steven Pinker Quote

“If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.”

“The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.”

“Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.”

“A proverb is good sense brought to a point.”

“Gambling has brought our family together. We had to move to a smaller house.”

“I was brought up a Roman Catholic, so when I was a child I was frogmarched to church every Sunday.”