751 Quotes by Steven Pinker

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.