Europe is not a geography — it’s a set of values and principles.
– Lennart Meri, Estonia’s first president
Morality binds and blinds.
– Jon Haight
If Russia stops fighting, there will be no war. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraine!
– Sign in Kiev borrowing a quote from Golda Meir
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely arranging their prejudices.
– William James
Paleolithic brains, medieval institutions, godlike technology
– EO Wilson
The Communists aimed to build an egalitarian system based on plenty. Instead, they created a hierarchical one based on scarcity.
– find who’s quote this is
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
– Stephen Henry Roberts
You can’t purify your way to a governing majority.
– David Brooks
We’ve turned politics from a practical way to solve common problems into a cultural arena to display resentments.
– David Brooks
Hillary’s flaws as a candidate caused people to lose sight of Trump’s flaws as a human being.
– Sam Harris
The President of the United States has claimed to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.
– Sam Harris
I would much rather have questions that I can’t answer, than answers that I can’t question.
– Max Tegmark
Once you can get people to believe absurdities, you can get them to commit atrocities.
– Voltaire
The Golden Rule may be the best moral algorithm we have.
– Sam Harris
Unsung Heros 
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