With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.

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

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

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.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

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.

Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

I realized that I'm a child." William looked point-blank at her chest. "No.

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.

When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

I'm not a person that's easily embarrassed, but I'm embarrassed for other people.