Power is competence.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

You can't go backward in life.

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

I don't really regard myself as a political figure.

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.

Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown.

Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Whether the gods are inside or outside makes very little difference to whether there are gods.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

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