"As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones."
― Steven Pinker
Topic(s):
Equality
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- "Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language."
- "Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
- "By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu."
More In Equality
- "A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered."― Andrea Dworkin
- "There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."― Woodrow Wilson
- "I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family."― Theodore Bikel