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

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.

In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted

Filtering solar radiation with air pollution is a bad idea.

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

You can shuffle my deck any day!

Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.