Believe it or not-and I know that most people do not-violence has…

Believe it or not-and I know that most people do not-violence has declined over long stretches of time, and today we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species' existence.

Steven Pinker

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined · 2011

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Advance of civilization Social progress Progress

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Sociology

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2011

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Steven Pinker

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Pinker, Steven. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Viking Books, 2011, preface.

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