“What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the d...” — Mark Pagel Quote

“What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.”

“We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.”

“Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.”

“Boys on set drives me a little bit loopy.”

“All of us who work in law enforcement want to keep people safe. That is the heart of our jobs; it is what drives us every day.”

“What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.”