If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.

Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

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.

If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

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