Quotes from Ben Shapiro

professors are ... intellectual terrorists. May they reap what they sow.

a world in which we are not expected to conform to societal rules but society is expected to conform to our own acts of self-definition. That means your child reading "I Am Jazz" but never—never, Gaia forbid!—the Bible.

young go into the profession with dread, the old can scarcely wait for retirement, and those of the middle years yearn for sabbaticals.

point out that throwing around accusations without evidence makes your opponent a piece of garbage

In fact, if your opponent thinks you're not worthy of debating, he isn't worthy of debating.

If the wealthiest segment of the population has no money, who gives the poor their jobs? The government? There's a name for that economic philosophy—communism.

This is why it's so comfortable to be on the left: that unearned sense of moral superiority. Unearned,

You know he's going to call you a racist, because he always calls his opponents racist.

he did it by bringing on folks from the right and then suggesting that they were evil for disagreeing with him.

individual purpose lay in acting virtuously—fulfilling our telos by pursuing right reason in accordance with nature. Virtue, in turn, could only be defined with reference to the community. The individual, in this view, tends to disappear into the community.

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans.

Avowed Marxist and tenured professor at the University of Texas, David Michael Smith, called capitalism "a system based on exploitation and oppression and domination and racism and war—and lots of other things."20 Right. And socialism is a system based on pretty butterflies and flowers and tolerance of all living creatures.

I think we can have a rational, political conversation about balancing rights and risks and rewards of all of these different policies, but I don't think that what we need to do is demonize people on the other side as being unfeeling about what happened at Sandy Hook.

Professors make "profit" into a curse word. If something is bad, it must be because people are doing it purely for profit. Providing a service is only worthy if it is done altruistically. Professors ignore the fact that man is a reward-driven being and that profit is the surest incentive for hard work.

Conservatives get trapped in this gambit routinely, because they figure that the enemy of their enemy is their friend: if the left is attacking someone, he must be worth defending. But that's not true.

Professor Richard Sklar of UCLA described socialism as a "great idea"3 and communist dictator Mao Tse-Tung as a "great leader.

MORGAN: I'm not the one who came in here and accused you of standing on the graves of dead children -- SHAPIRO: Because you're the one who is doing that. I'm punching back twice as hard. MORGAN: That's what I call bullying. SHAPIRO: You know what I call it? Punching back twice as hard, in the words of President Obama.

Calling you a racist and sexist, a bigot and a homophobe, gives them a sense of satisfaction with their status in the universe, even if they never help a single individual human being.

Why can't you just convince me on the basis of the evidence that what you're proposing is the right solution for America?

Implementation of socialism has resulted in more deaths than all the international wars of the twentieth century combined. Is socialism really a "great idea"? Mao caused the deaths of millions of his own people. Does that constitute great leadership?

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. Now, all these terms are – to be polite – a crock,

if you repeat something enough, it becomes true.

And chances are that if you wanted to do well in that final, citing Ayn Rand probably wasn't the best strategy.

I recall sitting in my Geography 5 class early during my freshman year at UCLA. Professor Joshua Muldavin taught the course. Along with learning that Western nations destroy the earth's peoples and ecosystems, we also learned about his virulent anti-capitalism; the only question was whether he was a full-fledged communist.