We need to focus every inch of our being on climate change, because if we fail to do so than all our achievements and progress have been for nothing and all that will remain of...

It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake of excusing our own repugnance, the inherent cruelty from which modern civilization was...

After forty years of working on prevention of a wide range of common and costly psychological and behavioral problems, I am convinced we have the knowledge to achieve a healthier, happier, and more prosperous society...

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.

In our lifetime, we have not seen a disease sweep through a community and people die so fast that there’s no one to take care of them at the hospital and there’s no one to...

It’s not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it’s a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. Our culture.

If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn’t see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December...

Checking a box on a form for race—”Caucasian,” “Hispanic,” “African-American,” “Native American,” or “Asian-American”—is untenable and ridiculous. For one thing, “American” is not a race, so labels such as “Asian-American” and “African-American” are still exhibits...

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Left to themselves, humans have always managed their own affairs creatively and well. Indeed, for most of human evolution and history people have lived peaceful, co-operative lives without rulers, leaders, politicians, soldiers, policemen and taxmen.