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

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.

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.

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them

Once more into the fray...Into the last good fight I'll ever know.Live and die on this day...Live and die on this day...

What's true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says.

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.

When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.