Steven Pinker Quotes

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

I disagree that I'm on the wrong side. I'm just not on your side.

No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement - that's what makes us all different.

I myself am sometimes fed up with Hatta's policies. Hatta and I sometimes bug each other, but omitting Hatta from the Proclamation Text... that is the action of a coward!

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.

You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

People learn the most about themselves by confronting those with whom they deeply disagree..

You only get to know someone after a huge exchange of blows.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about — you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer — and therefore, when differences are sufficiently far reaching, we try to kill the other man rather than let him have his way. But that is perfectly consistent with admitting that, so far as appears, his grounds are just as good as ours.

Once in a while I can agree with the enemy.

You're either in a conflict or you're not in a conflict.