All Jonathan Haidt Quotes
- The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning-the… Actually Govern
- And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others is often more… All
- Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives. Ancient
- While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of… Becoming
- I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is… Blind
- Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and… Either Happiness
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. Divided
- Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there… Conservatives
- Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's… Business
- Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could… Brain
- By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist. Belief
- Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world. Colleagues
- Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations. Anytime
- Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service. Congress
- Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues. Economic
- I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement. Authority
- 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. American
- If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness. Argument
- Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree. Degree
- Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves. Inspirational
- Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams. Bind
- People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should… Country
- Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be… Accident
- Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group… Denigrating
- 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 will… Affect