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Jonathan Haidt

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.
— Jonathan Haidt politics
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
— Jonathan Haidt power
I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.
— Jonathan Haidt war
Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?
— Jonathan Haidt relationships
People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.
— Jonathan Haidt change
Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.
— Jonathan Haidt value
It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.
— Jonathan Haidt travel
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 war
My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life?
— Jonathan Haidt life
When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.
— Jonathan Haidt art
Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.
— Jonathan Haidt art
If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
— Jonathan Haidt truth
People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.
— Jonathan Haidt live
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
— Jonathan Haidt wit
Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.
— Jonathan Haidt world
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 art
Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.
— Jonathan Haidt
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
— Jonathan Haidt reality
Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.
— Jonathan Haidt people
Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life.
— Jonathan Haidt life
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.
— Jonathan Haidt men
Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
— Jonathan Haidt religion
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
— Jonathan Haidt art
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 life
While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.
— Jonathan Haidt people

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