People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

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

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

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

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