Quotes by Robert Wright

Robert Wright

…human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

Equipment

Ignorance

Moral

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature’s way

Long

Pain

People

Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm – even where polygyny is permitted, multiple wives are generally reserved for a relatively few men who can afford them or qualify via formal rank. For eons and eons, most marriages have been monogamous, even though most societies haven’t been

Historical

Men

Wife

Being a person’s true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

Mean

Persons

True Friend

Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when you make a decision not to do something to protect the American people And you effectively allow 9/11 to occur. That is the ultimate form of government corruption-dereliction of duty. That’s subject in the military to prosecution, to court martial. Frankly, if not treason.

Government

Knowing

Military

Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

Greatness

Information

Territory

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

Giving

Men

Offering

God knows greed won’t vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn’t beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

Greed

Hatred

Stubborn

Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

Fabulous

Stress

Way

If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something similar might be said about human societies. If two nearby societies are in contact for any length of time, they will either trade or fight. The first is non-zero-sum social integration, and the second ultimately brings it.

Fighting

Mean

Zero

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Balls

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Blame

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Built

Change

Despair

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Fabulous

Fighting

Flower

Force

Frustration

Games

Giving

Government

Grateful

Greatness

Greed

Hatred

Historical

Ignorance

Information

Jesus

Knowing

Long

Mean

Men

Military

Moral

Moral Growth

Names

Nature

Not Happy

Numbers

Offering

Optimistic

Pain

Party

Peculiar

People

Persons

Problem

Reality

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Quotes by Robert Wright

Robert Wright

…human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature’s way

Being a person’s true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

God knows greed won’t vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn’t beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

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