Jonathan Haidt Quotes

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

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• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Feelings
  • Say
  • Texas

• Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Children
  • Night
  • City

• I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Dancing

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Education
  • Child
  • Sides

• I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Live
  • Money
  • Why

• The trouble with records is that they're too short.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Trouble
  • Records
  • Short

• I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Family
  • Politics
  • Rich

• People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Heart
  • Desire

• I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Real
  • School
  • Change

• Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Feel

• 'You're sure that we'll find someone suitable here?' 'Sure as eggs is eggs,' replied Sneezer. 'Surer even, eggs not always being what one might expect.'

  

  Garth Nix

• Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• Intellectuals … advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. … It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Political
  • Practice

• Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Art
  • Experience

• 'I love you. That'll be the ending of this under the words. '

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Words

• Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart

• I don't call myself a method actor, but the thing is, when you meet Reynolds Woodcock, who is always Reynolds Woodcock, you kind of are Alma, and you kind of become Alma all the time. I think after the first day, Vicky was going, 'Oh gosh.' It was so intense, and I couldn't understand why it was so intense.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • Time
  • Why

• When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • God

• Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.

  

  John Buchanan Robinson
  • Money
  • May
  • Simple

• It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Friend
  • Have
  • Pleasant

• I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

  

  Jonathan Haidt