A culture that allows the concept of “safety” to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger is a culture that encourages … - Jonathan Haidt

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

If you really want to change someone’s mind on a moral or political matter, you’ll need to see things from that person’s angle as well as your own. And if you do truly see it the other person’s way — deeply and intuitively — you might even find your own mind opening in response. Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it’s very difficult to empathize across a moral divide.

In our identitarian age, the bar for offense has been lowered considerably, which makes democratic debate more difficult — citizens are more likely to withhold their true opinions if they fear being labeled as bigoted or insensitive.