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Jonathan Haidt Quotes

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything Picture Quote #1

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 affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them Picture Quote #1

Dividing into teams doesn’t necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility Picture Quote #1

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 preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they’re willing to take that risk Picture Quote #1

Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it’s the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople Picture Quote #1

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts Picture Quote #1

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Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up? Picture Quote #1

Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings? Picture Quote #1

You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn’t change his judgment Picture Quote #1

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds Picture Quote #1

In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it’s rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive Picture Quote #1

If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths Picture Quote #1

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Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything Picture Quote #1

America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else’s rights Picture Quote #1

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded Picture Quote #1

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can’t tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs Picture Quote #1

Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators Picture Quote #1

What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us Picture Quote #1

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If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it’s wrong, there’s no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this Picture Quote #1

You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments Picture Quote #1

It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because unhappily married people are the least happy group of all and they pull down the average Picture Quote #1

There’s an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he’s a member of your ethnic group Picture Quote #1

Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness Picture Quote #1

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can’t tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs Picture Quote #1

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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 different way Picture Quote #1

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace Picture Quote #1

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all Picture Quote #1

My early research - I’m a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife’s life? Picture Quote #1

On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us Picture Quote #1

The most important thing to realize is we’re not blank slates at birth. We don’t start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There’s something in our heads on the day we’re born, and then we grow up and make choices Picture Quote #1

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People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) 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 affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) Dividing into teams doesn’t necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) 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 preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they’re willing to take that risk (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it’s the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up? (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings? (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn’t change his judgment (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) [W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it’s rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else’s rights (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can’t tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it’s wrong, there’s no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments. (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because unhappily married people are the least happy group of all and they pull down the average. (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) There’s an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he’s a member of your ethnic group. (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness. (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can’t tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs. (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) 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 different way. (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace. (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all. (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) My early research - I’m a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife’s life? (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us. (Jonathan Haidt Quotes) The most important thing to realize is we’re not blank slates at birth. We don’t start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There’s something in our heads on the day we’re born, and then we grow up and make choices. (Jonathan Haidt Quotes)

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