“ You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for… Jonathan Haidt
“ The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant. Jonathan Haidt
“ 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 b… Jonathan Haidt
“ Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies. Jonathan Haidt
“ 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
“ Asking children to grow virtues hydroponically, looking only within themselves for guidance, is like asking each one to invent a personal language―a pointless and isolating task if there is no communi… Jonathan Haidt
“ It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because unhappily married people are the least happy group of all and they pull down the average. Jonathan Haidt
“ Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the winner of the race two thirds of the time. This phenomenon held up even when they only glimpsed… Jonathan Haidt
“ The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction. Jonathan Haidt
