The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.

Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.

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.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide