Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

“Thus political orientation about social issues reflects sensitivity to visceral disgust and strategies for coping with such disgust.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination.”

— Steven Pinker

“The conservative social critique always boils down to the same simple message: liberalism - meaning everything from racy TV to deconstructionists in the Yale…

— Thomas Frank

“Self-esteem. That's one of those catch-all terms that means nothing at all, but the mere mention of it leaves all the socially conscious liberal…

— Jordan Castillo Price

It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful…

— Zadie Smith

“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about social class,…

— Thomas Frank

“Why the conservatives, who controlled all three branches of the federal government, were still so enraged--at respectful skeptics of the Iraq War, at gay…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Humans can intuitively sense through a variety of subtle clues (i.e., dress, accent, gestures) when another person possesses a mix of cultural and psychological…

— Guillermo Jimenez

“this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.”

— Winifred Gallagher

“when conservatives, but not liberals, are instructed to use reappraisal techniques (e.g., “Try to view the images in a detached, unemotional way”), they express…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.”

— Dennis Prager

“This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you.”

— Ben Shapiro