A Quote by Jonathan Haidt

Morality binds and blinds.

Jonathan Haidt

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Binds Blinds Morality

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Jonathan Haidt
American - Psychologist
Born: October 19, 1963

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.

Jonathan Haidt

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Jonathan Haidt

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Jonathan Haidt

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

Jonathan Haidt

You love him as a falcon loves his master who binds and blinds it.

Cassandra Clare

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

Jonathan Haidt

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

Irving Stone

Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.

Marion Dudley Cran

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

Helen Rowland

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

Michel Houellebecq

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

Frederick Lenz

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Jonathan Haidt

How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude yourself into thinking you had 'created' a morality, but that's all it would be, an illusion.

John Lennox

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

T. S. Eliot

You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!

Eric Thomas

There are so many ways to get involved with 'The Voice.' There is the open call, which tons of people are from. Of the people that you saw that made it past the Blinds, the majority are from open call auditions. They went through every round before you see the Blinds. But weirdly enough, I received a phone call.

Chloe Kohanski

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