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.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

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.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

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

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

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

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

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

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.

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

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire but gradually our desire changes.

Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.

When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.

The future's unwritten. It's what we make of it.

Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.

I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.

I want people to hear or watch something I've done and feel that I've given it everything I've got.

The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.

When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

People always tell me I'm too modest, and that I'm allowed to tell myself now and then that I'm good at something. Well okay then, the bathroom is very (beautiful) clean right now.