Top 6 Quotes by Mark Pagel

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.

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.

Mark Pagel

Powerful, Technology, Talking

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

Mark Pagel

Motivation, Inspiration, Destiny

"How language transformed humanity". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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.

Mark Pagel

Brain, Mind, Language

Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation”, p.290, Penguin UK

We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

Mark Pagel

Knowing, Mind, Embrace

Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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.

Mark Pagel

Pride, Groups, Emotion

Mark Pagel (2012). “Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company