Ben Shapiro Quotes Page 2

“There is no such thing as 'your truth'. There is the truth and your opinion.”

“There was a national apology for slavery. It was called the Civil War where 700,000 Americans died.”

“What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you’re fine.”

“When a black person kills a black person, the media ignores it completely.”

“When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system or to settle into depressed complacency.”

“If Obama learned one thing from FDR, it was that every socialist needs his foot soldiers.”

“It’s far more common for leftists to routinely pick up weapons and try to kill those with whom they disagree than it is for those on the other side of the ideological spectrum.”

“The Constitution designed the separation of church and state to prevent people from imposing their particular religions on others, not to stop people from allowing their religious beliefs to influence their views on public policy.”

“The leftist philosophy of violence is simple: It’s good when it’s being used for leftist causes. It’s bad when it’s being used for any other purpose.”

“Their latest label for religious people is 'American Taliban'. The left loves it. It’s meant to denigrate Christians as potential threats to world peace although the greatest threats of the last century, Nazism and communism, were both secular.”

“College students’ sense of moral righteousness doesn’t come from achievement – it comes from believing that you are a bad person. You are a racist and sexist; they are not. That makes them good, even if they don’t give to charity, have never met a black person, stand for policies that impoverish minority communities across the United States, and enable America-haters around the globe.”

“Don’t get caught in the trap of believing you have to know everything about everything.”

“Ronald Reagan was not a god. He himself would have said that. Don’t follow people. Follow principles.”

“The left is expert at framing debates. They have buzzwords they use to direct the debate toward unwinnable positions for you. They are tolerant, diverse, fighters for social justice; if you oppose them, by contrast, you are intolerant, xenophobic, and in favor of injustice.”

“The left no longer makes arguments about policies’ effectiveness. Their only argument is character assassination.”

“The truth is that your opponent, who labels you a racist without evidence, is the actual racist: it is he who waters down the term racism until it is meaningless by labeling any argument with which he disagrees racist.”

“There will be no conversation in which you call me a racist, and I explain why I’m not a racist. That’s a conversation for idiots.”

“When someone calls you a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe because you happen to disagree with them about tax policy or same-sex marriage or abortion, that’s bullying. When someone slanders you because you happen to disagree with them about global warming or the government shutdown, that’s bullying. When someone labels you a bad human being because they disagree with you, they are bullying you. They are attacking your character without justification. That’s nasty. In fact, it makes them nasty.”

“A man may be judged by his standard of entertainment as easily as by the standard of his work.”

“Baby boomers and their music rebelled against parents because they were parents — nurturing, attentive, and overly present (as those teenagers often saw it) authority figures. Today’s teenagers and their music rebel against parents because they are not parents—not nurturing, not attentive, and often not even there.”

“It is not right that children be dunked headfirst into the vat of garbage we call popular culture.”

“Never in our country’s history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged — and yet so empty.”

“No picture should lower the moral standards of those who see it.”

“Straw men are easier to knock down than real arguments.”

“Without a clear moral vision, we devolve into moral relativism, and from there, into oblivion.”

“A society of essential oils and self-esteem has replaced a society of logic.”

“Evil may so shape events that Caesar will occupy a palace and Christ a cross, but that same Christ will rise up and split history into A.D. and B.C., so that even the life of Caesar must be dated by his name. Yes, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

“The best countries — and the best societies — are those where citizens are virtuous enough to sacrifice for the common good but unwilling to be forced to sacrifice for the 'greater' good. Flourishing societies require a functional social fabric, created by citizens working together—and yes, separately — toward a meaningful life.”

“The creation story itself is designed to demonstrate how the first man, Adam, used his innate power of choice wrongly—and we are all Adam’s descendants.”

“We don’t live in a perfect world, but we do live in the best world that has ever existed.”