Kristine

“Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

“Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people to consider the possibility that there might really be more than one form of moral truth, or more than one valid framework for judging people or running a society.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

“Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

“The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion