All Jonathan Haidt Quotes
- In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and… Accounts
- It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high… Called
- Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven… Bunch
- The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction. Construction
- Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are. Clear
- I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research… Across
- The rider evolved to serve to the elephant. Elephant
- Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason. Anyone
- science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you. Google
- If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your… Ardor
- [W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds. Ability
- Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side… Battle
- If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical… Biased
- Morality binds and blinds. Binds
- It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away. Basic
- Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness. Bind
- When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help… Across
- The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot… Actually See
- Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind… Become Blind
- Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of… Been
- On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there… All
- While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact… Argument
- People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it,… Believe
- We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a… Along
- Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. Altruism