Jonathan Haidt Quotes

As Democrats and progressives look to the future, we should remember our most essential values.

As Democrats, we believe in fairness and opportunity.

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people ... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.

The more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally.

My entire life has been guided by a sense of equality, equality for loved ones.

Either you fight for everybody, or you're really just fighting for yourself and people like you.

The strongest, richest, greatest nation in the world shouldn't leave anyone behind.

If we create a framework for decision-making that is biased toward life, supportive of families, and fair to people of all circumstances, our policies, legislation, and commercial decisions will be vastly different.

The Democratic Party isn't any good unless they know it's about people!

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair.

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.