“Enlightenment ideals are timeless, but their realization at any moment is the strenuous achievement of nations.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Progress consists of deploying knowledge to allow all of humankind to flourish in the same way that each of us seeks to flourish.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Pessimism is so reflexively expected of an intellectual that the way to flaunt your sophistication is to wear a long face.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Knowledge is growing exponentially; knowledge needed to fend off our problems is growing faster than the problems.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Bad things can happen quickly, but good things aren't built in a day, and as they unfold, they will be out of sync with the news cycle.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“We will never have a perfect world, and it would be dangerous to seek one. But there is no limit to the betterments we can attain if we continue to apply knowledge to enhance human flourishing.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018