239 Quotes by Ben Shapiro

You have to look like you’re a nice person in order for people to believe that you are a nice person. Scientific studies show that people will judge you literally within milliseconds of seeing you. Make them see what you want them to see.

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.

For leftists, the answer to domestic violence isn’t to deal with any of the issues that could lead boys to become abusing men. The answer, instead, is to lecture Americans about the use of the word “sissy” – not because that solves the problem, but because it makes those on the left feel warm and fuzzy inside.

But it’s because conservatives don’t think about how to win that they constantly lose.

The Founding Fathers were devotees of Cicero and Locke, of the Bible and Aristotle.

But straw men are easier to knock down than real arguments.

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.

The USSR rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, substituting the values of the collective and a new utopian vision of “social justice” – and they starved and slaughtered tens of millions of human beings.

We receive our notions of Divine meaning from a three-millennia-old lineage stretching back to the ancient Jews; we receive our notions of reason from a twenty-five-hundred-year-old lineage stretching back to the ancient Greeks. In rejecting those lineages – in seeking to graft ourselves to rootless philosophical movements of the moment, cutting ourselves off from our own roots – we have damned ourselves to an existential wandering.