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Groups Quotes by Jonathan Haidt
- But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness…
- Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.
- 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.
- Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
- 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…
- 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…
- [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.
- 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…
- 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.
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