Jonathan Haidt Moral Quotations

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life?

Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.