The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker · 2011
Index
- Preface
- 1. A Foreign Country
- 2. The Pacification Process
- 3. The Civilizing Process
- 4. The Humanitarian Revolution
- 5. The Long Peace
- 6. The New Peace
- 7. The Rights Revolutions
- 8. Inner Demons
- 9. Better Angels
- 10. On Angels' Wings
Quote
"Violence has declined over long stretches of time."
"We are living in the most peaceable era in our species' existence."