Appealing Quote by Paul Bloom

I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media.

— Paul Bloom

Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.

— Paul Bloom

If Inigo Montoya were around now, he wouldn't need to storm the castle to bring his father's murderer to justice; the police would do…

— Paul Bloom

Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it's hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way we root…

— Paul Bloom

“Being a good person likely is more related to distanced feelings of compassion and kindness, along with intelligence, self-control, and a sense of justice.…

— Paul Bloom

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

— Paul Bloom

One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's…

— Paul Bloom

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond…

— Paul Bloom

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

— Paul Bloom

Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their…

— Paul Bloom

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb Syria, he…

— Paul Bloom

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

— Paul Bloom