We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

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.

The Kremlin has made a habit of accusing others of crimes of which it has been accused of itself [228]

Passion to a person is what gas is to a car. Without it, you won't go anywhere!

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

I'm quite sure that no court is telling anybody that they cannot say whatever they want to say.

I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper.

We put stereotypes on ourselves - like, everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just like, you know, be who they are.

Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.

Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!