People Quote by Jonathan Haidt

“Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.”

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Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

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“The ethic of autonomy is based on the idea that people are, first and foremost, autonomous individuals with wants, needs, and preferences. People should be free to satisfy these wants, needs, and preferences as they see fit, and so societies develop moral concepts such as rights, liberty, and justice, which allow people to coexist peacefully without interfering too much in…

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I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and…

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“We should not expect individuals to produce good, open-minded, truth-seeking reasoning, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in play. But if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact…

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The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

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It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

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“Our minds have the potential to become righteous about many different concerns, and only a few of these concerns are activated during childhood. Other”

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