Jonathan Haidt Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.”

“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.”

“If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.”

“Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.”

“Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social 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.”

“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.”

“Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.”

“Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.”

“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.”