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Ben Shapiro Quotes

Total quotes: 30
“We don’t live in a perfect world, but we do live in the best world that has ever existed.”
— Ben Shapiro, The Right Side of History
Tagged: Modern Life
“Lasting happiness can only be achieved through cultivation of soul and mind. And cultivating our souls and minds requires us to live with moral purpose.”
— Ben Shapiro, The Right Side of History
Tagged: Morality, Ethics, Happiness
“Solve your own problems.”
— Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro: Problem-Solving in Life and Business
Tagged: Problems, Motivational, Fix Yourself
“You can’t magically change your gender. You can’t magically change your sex. You can’t magically change your age.”
— Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro, a Provocative ‘Gladiator,’ Battles to Win Young Conservatives
Tagged: Transgender, gender, Sex, Age
“Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success.”
— Ben Shapiro, Why Socialism Breeds Racism
Tagged: Socialism, rich, poor, Moral
“Regardless of political affiliation, we should be proud to live in a society founded on eternal truths, in which we have the ability to thrive based on our own choices.”
— Ben Shapiro, The Ungrateful Nation
Tagged: Political Affiliation, Eternal Truths
“Our politics will continue to degrade. Anybody who thinks President Trump is the sole performer under the big top should realize that the circus has three rings, and Democrats occupy at least one of them. ”
— Ben Shapiro, Screaming and Whining Aren't Strategies
Tagged: Donald Trump, Political Circus, Democrats
“Facts have been buried to make way for feelings; a society of essential oils and self-esteem has replaced a society of logic.”
— Ben Shapiro, The Right Side of History
Tagged: Facts
“Just because the left has ignored and disparaged truth for years is no excuse for the right to do so as well. And unfortunately, truth-free politics seems to be growing exponentially on the right.”
— Ben Shapiro, Is Truth Becoming Irrelevant to Conservatives?
Tagged: Left Wing, Right Wing, Truth, Fact-Free
“If we can attribute the violence of a few to the speech of public figures, the only available solution would be to curtail speech. And we cannot base our standard for protected speech on those with eggshell skulls.”
— Ben Shapiro, When We Broaden the Definition of Incitement, Freedom Suffers
Tagged: Violence, Free Speech, Public Figures, Eggshell Skulls
“In today's political environment, your feelings about Trump actually have an impact on how people feel about you.”
— Ben Shapiro, Do Politics Matter?
Tagged: Politics, Donald Trump
“Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez will be the future of the country ... until we run out of money.”
— Ben Shapiro, Being a Socialist Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
Tagged: Socialism, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“Trump won the nomination because he was anti-left, not because of any political viewpoints, he was slapping people on the left and people on the right went, ‘Yeah, those people need to be slapped!’”
— Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro, a Provocative ‘Gladiator,’ Battles to Win Young Conservatives
Tagged: Donald Trump, Left Wing, Right Wing
“The left no longer makes arguments about policies’ effectiveness. Their only argument is character assassination.”
— Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument
Tagged: Left Wing, Character Assassination, Ad Hominem
“Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.”
— Ben Shapiro, Why Socialism Breeds Racism
Tagged: Capitalism, Barter
“Americans are not racists, and they are not socialists. That is why America is on the rise, even as Europe falls.”
— Ben Shapiro, Why Socialism Breeds Racism
Tagged: Americans, racists, Socialists, America, Europe
“Without a shared history or shared ideals, culture and institutions crumble.”
— Ben Shapiro, What Do We Have In Common?
Tagged: Culture, institutions, Shared History, Shared Ideals
“Once we believe that Trump is either the Great Satan or the Great God, it's no wonder that fringe actors on either side are willing to take extreme measures to harm or ‘protect’ him.”
— Ben Shapiro, When Government Becomes Everything, Everything Becomes Crazy
Tagged: Donald Trump, satan, God, Fringe, Political Violence
“Nihilism, narcissism, and hedonism are natural results of the chaotic existential subjectivism popularized by the Left. If the hallmark of the baby boomers was rebellion, the hallmark of my generation is jadedness. Nothing really matters—we’re cosmically alone.”
— Ben Shapiro, Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future
Tagged: Nihilism, Narcissism, Hedonism, Existential, Baby Boomers
“Facts don't care about your feelings.”
— Ben Shapiro
Tagged: Facts, Feelings
“Traditional masculinity is actually just men sitting around and eating burgers while grunting at one another about football, all the while crying on the inside because they have been prohibited by society from showing their feelings.”
— Ben Shapiro, The Scientific Experts Who Hate Science
Tagged: Traditional Masculinity, Football, Feelings
“Everybody sucks at everything.”
— Ben Shapiro, What If Everybody Sucks At Everything?
Tagged: Everybody Sucks
“We need, in my estimate, four elements: individual moral purpose, individual capacity to pursue that purpose, communal moral purpose, and communal capacity to pursue that purpose. These four elements are crucial; the only foundation for a successful civilization lies in a careful balance of these four elements.”
— Ben Shapiro, The Right Side of History
Tagged: Building Society , Moral Purpose
“Jerusalem and Athens built science. The twin ideals of Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law reasoning built human rights. They built prosperity, peace, and artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens built America, ended slavery, defeated the Nazis and the Communists, lifted billions from poverty, and gave billions spiritual purpose.”
— Ben Shapiro, The Right Side of History
Tagged: Western Civilization, Jerusalem, Science, Judeo-Christian Values
“These demagogic non sequiturs undercut conservative claims to value the truth. And that has policy consequences: the supposedly conservative Pence and company have been pushing the lie for a week now that the free market is a failure and case-by-case economic fascism from above is the solution to lost American jobs. When truth doesn't matter, lies about policy are sure to follow.”
— Ben Shapiro, Is Truth Becoming Irrelevant to Conservatives?
Tagged: Mike Pence, Demagogue, Conservative, Fascism, Truth, Lies
“Policies have real-world consequences, regardless of how much we wish they don't. It's failure to cope with that basic fact that leads to so much of the finger-pointing we see in politics, with each side accusing the other of bad intention -- as though pointing out a policy's failure is equivalent to rooting for failure. It isn't.”
— Ben Shapiro, Policies Have Consequences
Tagged: Politics, Policies, finger-pointing, Failure
“The left believes in a hierarchy of victimhood, if you are L.G.B.T.Q., then we suggest that you are very top of the victimhood hierarchy. You have been most victimized in the United States and therefore your opinion must be taken with the most gravitas. ... Black folks have been historically victimized in the United States, which of course, is true. But the idea that every black person now is being individually victimized by the United States is not true. ... Way down at the bottom are white straight males. Those are people whose opinions do not matter at all. Because those are the people who are the beneficiaries of the system. They don’t get to talk about the system because they were the ones who built the system.”
— Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro, a Provocative ‘Gladiator,’ Battles to Win Young Conservatives
Tagged: Left Wing, Right Wing, Victimhood, Straight White Males
“Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic. We've seen plenty of moral panic before in the United States, from worries about violent video games, to concern about allegations of sex abuse at day care facilities. But never have we seen a moral panic of the stunning breadth of today's woke moral panic. It's a moral panic that insists we change fundamental characteristics of our society, from biology, to language, to politics, to religion, to romantic relations, to art, to comedy.”
— Ben Shapiro, 2019: The Year of the Wokescolds
Tagged: Wokescolds, United States, Video Games, Moral Panic, Woke, Language, Politics, Biology, Religion, comedy, Art
“This is pure ends-justify-the-means logic. And the means are pushing falsehood. The notion here seems to be that Trump is helping America avoid perdition, and thus must be given leeway to lie; if we didn’t allow him to lie, the left would continue to do so, and then they’d win and drive us straight into Hell. But that suggests that truth no longer has the capacity to drive voters or Americans. If that’s true, republicanism is finished as a principle – if we can only lie to voters to get them to vote for us, that undermines the decency of republicanism altogether.”
— Ben Shapiro, Is Truth Becoming Irrelevant to Conservatives?
Tagged: ends justify the means, falsehood, Donald Trump, Republicanism
“The students of Covington Catholic High School are accused of mobbing and mocking a Native American veteran. This incident supports the broader narrative that Trump supporters, religious Americans and young white men are emissaries of racism and toxic masculinity. Then it turns out that the video has been taken wildly out of context and deliberately misinterpreted. Many advocates of the narrative immediately declare that while this incident is a poor example, the overall narrative is true -- and that leaping to conclusions will be justified next time, in order to prove that the overall narrative ought to be taken seriously. The only price: whomever is next maligned without facts.”
— Ben Shapiro, Why Socialism Breeds Racism
Tagged: Covington High School, native american, Narrative Collapse, Donald Trump, racism, toxic masculinity
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