Steven Pinker Quotes
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
Pinker, Steven. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Viking, 2011.
The same sentiment has been attributed to Aristotle.
This is a variant of a famous Clauswitz quotation {635143}.
It was not to be and the Korean War followed and the Vietnam War in which he was killed covering a battle. He is recognized as the greatest war photographer.
Although Great Britain had abolished slavery, British economic interests during the Civil War suffered because of the northern blockade of the South. Much political opinion in England was hostile to the blockade policies of the Union. Bright, a great admirer and supporter of the United Sates and the Union cause was concerned that the United States might drift into War with Great Britain. His letter to Senator Sumner was written with the understanding that it would be in shared with President Lincoln, and it was actually read at a cabinet meeting.
Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
