Jonathan Haidt Quotes

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

In many cases democracy has not been able to solve the social problems like poverty.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

There is within man an ethical feeling ... telling us that in our economic life as well as elsewhere we must seek to promote the welfare of our neighbor and brother.

The doctrine of laissez faire is unsafe in politics and unsound in morals.

We need to maintain law and order. We need to maintain peace in the world. We need to protect the environment. We need to have some degree of social justice, equality of opportunity. The markets are not designed to take care of those needs. That's a political process.

The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

The Hebrew word “tzedakah” … is translated as “charity” but … comes from the same root as the word for “justice”.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

It is right to be forward in the defense of the poor; no system that is not just as between rich and poor can hope to survive.

… the first duty of society is justice.

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

We need to deal with the economy and the moral weakness of the country.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.