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.

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.

Well, I guess I picked wrong then. Jesse doesn't like girls.

Do not imagine that the good you intend will balance the evil you perform

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away

Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!