Quotes from Ben Shapiro

The real mark of education is learning how to think. Swallowing whole what your professors say doesn't teach you to think—it teaches you to think what they want you to think. And that is indoctrination, pure and simple.

We need social institutions to provide us the safety to take risks, institutions that help pick us up when we fall; we also need governmental structures that leave us free to take those risks. We need social organizations promoting civic virtue in order to instill individual virtue; we need government to protect individuals' free right to choose.

The diversity touted by the university system reaches only as far as skin color or country of origin. The spectrum of ideas extends only from the left to the far left.

There is no such thing as a neutral or objective claim,"1 said Professor Joshua Muldavin of UCLA. It was early in the quarter, and the professor was explaining to our class that there is no such thing as capital-T Truth. There is no right and wrong, no good and evil, he taught. We must always remember that we are subjective beings, and as such, all of our values are subjective. It's a load of bunk. Of course evil exists.

EDUCATION IS A RIGHT! NOT JUST FOR THE RICH AND WHITE!" they chanted, ignoring that the majority of those in the UC system are not white, and that there are more Asian Americans than whites on UC campuses.

When Professor Orlando Patterson of Harvard University was interviewed on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer regarding President Bill Clinton's perjury, he said, "I think it's important to emphasize the fact that there are no absolutes in our moral precepts. Kant may have believed that, and some fascists do. . . . [P]erjury is not an absolute.

We're instead pursuing other priorities: physical pleasure, emotional catharsis, monetary stability. All these things are important, of course, but they don't bring lasting happiness.

When asked which statement about ethics their professors most often voiced, 73 percent picked: "what is right and wrong depends on differences in individual values and cultural diversity." Only 25 percent of the students selected the option reading: "there are clear and uniform standards of right and wrong by which everyone should be judged.

It is the reason that the right consistently loses the black and Hispanic vote – not because the right's policies are so abhorrent to blacks and Hispanics, but because blacks and Hispanics have been told for generations that conservatives hate them.

Professor Peter Singer of Princeton University advocates the killing of disabled newborns. Reports the New York Times, "To Singer, a newborn has no greater right to life than any other being of comparable rationality and capacity for emotion, including pigs, cows and dogs."6 This is evil. Equating newborn humans with animals is absolutely sickening. But that is what Singer is teaching in his course at Princeton.

Young liberals call for tolerance because they want to promulgate a lifestyle, in other words; young conservatives call for tolerance because they actually believe in tolerance, even of lifestyle choices with which they disagree. In return, young conservatives demand that their opponents mind their own business. Tolerance is a moral touchstone, then, for young Americans on both the left and the right, but for different reasons.

Besides defending gangsta rap, professors will also defend convicted and admitted murderers and murderesses—as long as those killers are leftists.

The assault on absolute morality is the basis for every brainwashing scheme of the Left. It even bestows upon them the leeway to defend murderers and thugs. Higher learning, indeed.

While the Left glorifies diversity of race and ethnicity, it actively opposes diversity of thought, considering only leftists ideas acceptable for dissemination.

Truth itself is a casualty as the result of a disturbing trend in academia to fully embrace postmodern moral relativism.

most professors—and not just those in the political and social science departments—don't even aspire to present a balanced perspective.

The higher education system indoctrinates America's youth. The vast majority of the professoriate is leftist. This is an uncontested fact.

According to Scientific American, people watching TV "reported feeling relaxed and passive. The EEG studies similarly show less mental stimulation, as measured by alpha brain-wave production, during viewing than during reading. . . . Habit-forming drugs work in similar ways." In short, scientists conclude that "TV does seem to meet the criteria for substance dependence."1

College students are attacked with bias from the moment they step on campus until the time they leave it. The effect is devastating.

These three elements—America's philosophy of reason, equality, liberty, and limited government; America's culture of individual rights and social duties; and America's shared history—define our country.

Moral Relativism is a widespread disease.

The Democrats running the universities don't separate politics and teaching.

There was no question about that. Bullies can't deal with those who stand up to them.

The liberal media hates Republicans, the military, and Israel.