What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us.

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 number one price of ignorance is destruction.

By seeing the beauty of life, I attract them into my life.

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

Golf is a weird sport. Some days you got it. Some days you don't.

As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.

In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.