Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
Interpretation
Empowering women leads to a reduction in societal violence.
This quote suggests that when societies prioritize the empowerment of women, they experience a significant decrease in various forms of violence. Steven Pinker emphasizes that gender equality and the upliftment of women not only improve the quality of life for individuals but also contribute to a more peaceful and harmonious society.
In practice
In a speech about social justice, one might use this quote to highlight the importance of gender equality.
The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.
The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age in the price we pay for the vigor of youth.
If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.
We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.
Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.
The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more β if more should be required β the future of human civilization is at stake.
We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.
What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
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