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Them Quotes by Jonathan Haidt
- Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose…
- Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the…
- Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
- Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle