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

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.

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.

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.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

You couldn't stand to see what terrifies warlords.

Either offend or represent, don’t be a spectator.

The ego taunts truth with sarcasm.

......he married a girl, he had no idea what the woman was going to be like. As soon as he got a glimpse he was running scared.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

I want to trace my father, could you suggest a good marker pen?

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

Leaders today face challenges for which they are utterly unprepared.