By temperament and disposition and emotions, I’m a liberal; but in my beliefs about what’s best for the country, I’m a centrist. Jonathan Haidt Read Quote
We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way. Jonathan Haidt Read Quote
Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness. Jonathan Haidt Read Quote
When I think about life on Earth, there should not be a species like us. And if there was, we should be out in the jungle killing each other in small groups. That’s what you should expect. Jonathan Haidt Read Quote
Anytime we’re interacting with someone, we’re judging them, we’re sharing expectations, we think they didn’t live up to those expectations. Jonathan Haidt Read Quote
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams. Jonathan Haidt Read Quote
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it’s rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive. Jonathan Haidt Read Quote
Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns. Jonathan Haidt Read Quote
