The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better.
Matt RidleyConsidering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.
Matt RidleyLife is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race
Matt RidleySociety works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.
Matt Ridley