Durkheim, who said: “What is moral is everything that is a…

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

— Jonathan Haidt

You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,…

— Jonathan Haidt

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

— Jonathan Haidt

Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding…

— Jonathan Haidt

“The ethic of autonomy is based on the idea that people are, first and foremost, autonomous individuals with wants, needs, and preferences. People should…

— Jonathan Haidt

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

— Jonathan Haidt

I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and…

— Jonathan Haidt

“We should not expect individuals to produce good, open-minded, truth-seeking reasoning, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in play. But if you put…

— Jonathan Haidt

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

— Jonathan Haidt

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

— Jonathan Haidt

If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red…

— Jonathan Haidt

“Our minds have the potential to become righteous about many different concerns, and only a few of these concerns are activated during childhood. Other”

— Jonathan Haidt

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

— Jonathan Haidt

“Nonetheless, if you are trying to change an organization or a society and you do not consider the effects of your changes on moral…

— Jonathan Haidt

If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers…

— Jonathan Haidt