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Morality 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…
- Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return.
- Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.
- Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
- 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…
- [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.
- 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…
- Morality binds and blinds.
- 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…
- 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.
More Morality Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Morality is a private and costly luxury. — Henry Adams
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams