525 Quotes by Sam Harris

One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.

If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?

One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless.

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.

I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.