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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...

—Jonathan Haidt

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BattlePassion
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Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

—Jonathan Haidt

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

—Jonathan Haidt

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Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams… but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

—Jonathan Haidt

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BlindMoralityReality
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Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the...

—Jonathan Haidt

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Atheism
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The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.

—Jonathan Haidt

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It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called ‘openness to experience.’ People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new...

—Jonathan Haidt

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Fact
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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

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DifferenceGroupHate
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Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

—Jonathan Haidt

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Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

—Jonathan Haidt

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

—Jonathan Haidt

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MoralitySacredness
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Most of our social nature is like that of other primates – we’re mostly out for ourselves.

—Jonathan Haidt

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OurselvesSocial
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When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that’s fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was...

—Jonathan Haidt

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StandStart
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If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

—Jonathan Haidt

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

—Jonathan Haidt

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When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.

—Jonathan Haidt

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Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking.

—Jonathan Haidt

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MoralityReligion
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By temperament and disposition and emotions, I’m a liberal; but in my beliefs about what’s best for the country, I’m a centrist.

—Jonathan Haidt

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EmotionsLiberal
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Anytime we’re interacting with someone, we’re judging them, we’re sharing expectations, we think they didn’t live up to those expectations.

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When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.

—Jonathan Haidt

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Evolution
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Those who think money can’t buy happiness just don’t know where to shop … People would be happier and healthier if they took more time off and spent it with their family and friends, yet...

—Jonathan Haidt

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While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against...

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AgainstUnderstandWhile
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Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

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Gives
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I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it’s one of the only growth stocks I’ve ever invested in.

—Jonathan Haidt

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CultureInterested
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Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

—Jonathan Haidt

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LivesSmart
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The emotion of disgust evolved initially to optimize responses to the omnivore’s dilemma. Individuals who had a properly calibrated sense of disgust were able to consume more calories than their overly disgustable cousins while consuming...

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Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.

—Jonathan Haidt

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CultureHarmonyIndividualism
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Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you...

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FriendsMight
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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?

—Jonathan Haidt

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CongressRun
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Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.

—Jonathan Haidt

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DegreeReligionsTribal
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If you have high IQ, you’re really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

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FeelingsHigh
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Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

—Jonathan Haidt

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FallibilityReason
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Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

—Jonathan Haidt

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PsychologyReligion
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I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

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GoalMoralUnderstand
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Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it’s not clear to most voters what Democrats’ core moral values are.

—Jonathan Haidt

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MoralSocialTalk
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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...

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CopyMightValues
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People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

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ViewsVoting
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Everyone cares about fairness, but there are two major kinds. On the left, fairness often implies equality, but on the right it means proportionality —people should be rewarded in proportion to what they contribute, even...

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EqualityFairness
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Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

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MoralityPsychology
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Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.

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Together
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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...

—Jonathan Haidt

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The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the...

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OnceWrong
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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...

—Jonathan Haidt

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BornGrowStart
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Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

—Jonathan Haidt

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PoliticalScience
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Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

—Jonathan Haidt

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Psychology
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Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage...

—Jonathan Haidt

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People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change...

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PoliticalPretty
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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.

—Jonathan Haidt

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AlongLines
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The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

—Jonathan Haidt

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Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.

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FriendsLiberalsSocial
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