Martin Amis Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.

  Martin Amis

  Doubt, Way, Kind

• My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

  Martin Amis

  Father, Doubt, Announcements

• The Uruguayans have a sort of purity. I don't know where they got it, and I doubt even if they know from where they got it. Perhaps they didn't kill off their major population.

  Martin Amis

  Doubt, Purity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look at Steven Pinker's book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. It proves beyond any shadow of doubt that violence has declined dramatically throughout the centuries. There are various reasons for it: the rise of the state, Leviathan, the monopoly of violence, children's rights, animal rights. They're all positive signs.

  Martin Amis

  Book, Angel, Animal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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