Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

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.

The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

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

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

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.

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