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.

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.

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

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

Hell yeah! Twitter was proof that leaderless self-organizing systems could be true agents of change.

A giver's purse can never be paused.

Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.

A small town is usually divided by a railroad a main street two churches and a lot of opinions.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

I like the night life, I like to boogy.

It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.

I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business.

I don't really understand why when I'm not making music, I feel like I can't breathe.

When asked whether he minded if someone smoked in a non-smoking compartment. Certainly not if you don't object if I'm sick.