The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.

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.

When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn't ruin your whole day.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I create so that each and every woman is the most beautiful

Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

What is fear but courage's shadow?

[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Love is the reality of the soul.

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.