Gad Saad Quotes

“A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree, and he turns away. Show him facts or figures, and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic, and he fails to see your point.”

“Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.”

“Any system that is built on a false understanding of human nature is doomed to fail. Building a society where the primary objective is to protect one’s fragile self-esteem from the dangers of competition will only lead to a society of weakness, entitlement, and apathy. Life is necessarily competitive; society is necessarily hierarchical. It does no one any favors to pursue a utopian vision of society where no one’s feelings are hurt.”

“Anyone who is willing to end a relationship because of a reasoned difference of opinion is not worthy of your friendship.”

“As British prison psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple observed: “[I]s it not the case that we live in an age of emotional incontinence, when they who emote the most are believed to feel the most?”14 Remember though that one’s heartfelt outrage seldom says anything about the truth or falsehood of one’s position.”

“Beware of those trying to impress you with confusing word salads.”

“Do not fear the loss of a friendship.
Anyone who is willing to end a relationship because of a reasoned difference of opinion is not worthy of your friendship.”

“E. O. Wilson, the Harvard entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is reputed to have said of socialism: 'Great idea. Wrong species.' Any system that is built on a false understanding of human nature is doomed to fail.”

“Free societies do no recoil and the power of satire. They recognize that all beliefs and ideologies are fair game. Once we delimit what can be satirized, we are no longer living in a free society.”

“Homeostasis also plays a part in what researchers call the prevalence-induced concept change effect. Suppose that you are asked to identify whether a dot is blue. This should not depend on how many blue dots you've previously been exposed to-but it does. When there are fewer blue dots, people will code purple dots as blue. Researchers replicated this finding using pictures of threatening faces. When participants were shown fewer threatening faces, they judged neutral faces as threatening. In short, I posit that this is a form of homeostasis, namely people are driven to maintain the frequency of a stimulus at a set level, even if they have to engage in perceptual distortions to do so.”

“I opened up my rebuttal by explaining that there are only two types of theories: Those that divide the world into two types of theories, and those that do not.”

“I quickly learned that most academic feminists were profoundly hostile to evolutionary psychology.”

“If you want to know what’s wrong with higher education, this reversal of traditional university priorities — with social justice now at the top and scholarship lower on the totem pole — is a good place to start.”

“In a free society, people should have the right to criticize a religion; they should have the right to do so, and of course their criticisms are themselves open to criticism; that is the essence of freedom of speech and thought.”

“In short, if your average voter had five key issues in mind, scored each candidate on them, and weighted them in order of importance, it was easy to understand how perfectly reasonable and rational people might have voted for Donald Trump without being deplorable bigots.”

“In the land of progressive Unicornia, science is only valuable if it is consistent with ideological dogma. Otherwise it is nothing more than bigoted hate facts.”

“In the West, the ideological indoctrination is subtler. It is achieved by an ethos of political correctness and best enforced by creating university campuses that lack intellectual diversity. Political correctness is like the sting of the spider wasp. Recall that the afflicted spider is dragged to the wasp’s burrow in a zombie-like state and is subsequently eaten in vivo by the wasp’s offspring.”

“In Unicornia, all people are just as likely to be terrorists. To think otherwise is to be a hateful bigot.”

“Incidentally, if you are a non-racist white person who does not appreciate being accused of supporting white supremacy, you undoubtedly suffer from white fragility.”

“No other religion has come even remotely close to Islam in inspiring, justifying, or supporting terrorism. And yet, the progressive intelligentsia insist that none of these documented attacks have anything to do with Islam.”

“Oh, you are a non-binary bisexual chemist? Well this completely changes the atomic numbers of Carbon, Palladium, and Uranium.”

“One problem we face today is that consequentialists make a virtue of having emotions cloud our judgments, not only to avoid hurt feelings but because emotion is seen as a sign of authenticity.”

“Progressives consider it laudable to criticize, mock, or insult all religious beliefs — except for the one untouchable faith. To attack Islam in the West is 'Islamophobic', 'racist', and 'bigoted'.”

“Progressives seem to believe that if they say the words 'diversity, inclusion, and equity' often enough, all problems will be solved.”

“Science is based on evidence, not politics. In science knowing is always preferable to not knowing. But today in academia, progressive ideology trumps scientific facts.”

“Science should be about the pursuit of truth, and not about the defense of one’s preferred political ideology or personal beliefs.”

“Someone should advise women to stop fantasizing about courageous firefighters and heroic uniformed soldiers. There is a new sheriff in town who epitomizes a progressive definition of masculinity: Apathetic Cowardly Bystander Man.”

“The greater the number of people present, the less likely an individual is to help someone in need because it is easier to rationalize that someone else will do it.”

“The next time some academics tell you how important ‘diversity’ is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”

“The problem arises when domains that should be reserved for the intellect are hijacked by feelings.”