Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.

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

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

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

I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than the sum of the individuals. And I've found that much of the wisest writing on human social nature comes from sociology and anthropology, not from my own field of social psychology.

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.