Mark Pagel Quotes

#1. The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.

J.I. Packer

#2. No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.

Mark Pagel

#3. What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.

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#4. You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

Mark Pagel

#5. Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

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#6. Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#7. Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

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#8. Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

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#9. [Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

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#10. The problem is that our children increasingly have not been given enough of the Christian faith even to apostatize from it properly.

Michael S. Horton

#11. We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.

Mark Pagel

#12. The alien in my uncle hand obviously taken full control. Soon, it would claw its way out of his stomach and tap dance across my bed

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#13. Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

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#14. Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

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#15. It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

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#16. As a candidate, I intend to let everyone hear my message, including the many who can express their love of country in a different language.

Jeb Bush

#17. It is not nor it cannot come to good.

William Shakespeare

#18. Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.

Mark Pagel