The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220)

— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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