Art making Quote by Steven D. Levitt

“One thing we've learned is that when people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to…

— Anonymous

“People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds.”

— Jonathan Haidt

“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine…

— Václav Havel

“Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.”

— Jonathan Haidt

“It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the…

— Timothy Snyder

“moral thinking is more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth:”

— Jonathan Haidt

“Politicians are judged by what they say and they don't do”

— Michelangelo Saez

“The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don’t give politics a first thought…

— Tony Blair

“I thought if you told people facts, they’d draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But…

— James S.A. Corey

“On all the important stuff, we are emotional creatures who make decisions first and rationalize them after the fact.”

— Scott Adams

I know that there is nothing more crucial when making decisions than to have all the facts.

— Josh Shapiro

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge…

— Paul Rusesabagina