Top 20 Ben Sasse Quotes (2024 Update)

Ben Sasse Quote: “In the midst of extraordinary prosperity, we’re also living through a crisis. Our communities are collapsing, and people are feeling more isolated, adrift, and purposeless than ever before.”

1. “In the midst of extraordinary prosperity, we’re also living through a crisis. Our communities are collapsing, and people are feeling more isolated, adrift, and purposeless than ever before.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “If we really want to be happy, we must plant roots and tend them. that means, in large part, thinking carefully about how to get the best out of the technology that liberates us from inconveniences – without letting our devices cut us off from the richest parts of life.”

2. “If we really want to be happy, we must plant roots and tend them. that means, in large part, thinking carefully about how to get the best out of the technology that liberates us from inconveniences – without letting our devices cut us off from the richest parts of life.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “Our goal is for our kids to be intentional about everything they do – to reject passivity and mindless consumption and to embrace an ethos of action, of productivity, of meaningful work, of genuinely lifelong learning.”

3. “Our goal is for our kids to be intentional about everything they do – to reject passivity and mindless consumption and to embrace an ethos of action, of productivity, of meaningful work, of genuinely lifelong learning.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “As The Atlantic’s Julie Beck has written, we’re building “pillow forts” of comfortable information around us and making it more and more difficult for anything we don’t want to hear to penetrate.5.”

4. “As The Atlantic’s Julie Beck has written, we’re building “pillow forts” of comfortable information around us and making it more and more difficult for anything we don’t want to hear to penetrate.5.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. – Neil Postman To.”

5. “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. – Neil Postman To.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “It is not only the content of a book that changes you but the shared community with those who have read it, discussed it, argued about it.”

6. “It is not only the content of a book that changes you but the shared community with those who have read it, discussed it, argued about it.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “Work is where we build character. Work is where we create value with our lives and lift up our own souls. Work, properly understood, is the sacred practice of offering up our talents for the service of others.”

7. “Work is where we build character. Work is where we create value with our lives and lift up our own souls. Work, properly understood, is the sacred practice of offering up our talents for the service of others.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “Let’s hope that, over time, we’ll develop a bias, when we have an extra free hour, toward shoveling snow from the elderly neighbor lady’s sidewalk over streaming another Netflix sitcom.”

8. “Let’s hope that, over time, we’ll develop a bias, when we have an extra free hour, toward shoveling snow from the elderly neighbor lady’s sidewalk over streaming another Netflix sitcom.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “Could we perhaps be rearing a generation that might not be tough enough to be good Americans? For a good American needs to be tough.”

9. “Could we perhaps be rearing a generation that might not be tough enough to be good Americans? For a good American needs to be tough.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “Learning can’t be force fed. It needs to come in response to genuinely asked questions by genuinely curious people. Experts can’t educate your kids until your kids have the desire to be educated.”

10. “Learning can’t be force fed. It needs to come in response to genuinely asked questions by genuinely curious people. Experts can’t educate your kids until your kids have the desire to be educated.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “There is a deep and corrosive tribal impulse to act as if “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” But sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just a jackass.”

11. “There is a deep and corrosive tribal impulse to act as if “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” But sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just a jackass.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “Living only in the present isn’t freedom. Living only in the present isn’t even human if you think about it. Humans, unlike any other animal on the planet, remember the past. We understand our nature. And we try to build on both of them. We are an aspirational species; we look to the future.”

12. “Living only in the present isn’t freedom. Living only in the present isn’t even human if you think about it. Humans, unlike any other animal on the planet, remember the past. We understand our nature. And we try to build on both of them. We are an aspirational species; we look to the future.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “Many of our television hosts are modern-day carnival barkers. We get dopamine, adrenalin, and oxytocin all at once. It’s an adult video game. But instead of expertly separating us from our wallets, they’re separating us from things much more valuable. Our time, our sense of perspective, and our judgment. And they are separating us from each other.”

13. “Many of our television hosts are modern-day carnival barkers. We get dopamine, adrenalin, and oxytocin all at once. It’s an adult video game. But instead of expertly separating us from our wallets, they’re separating us from things much more valuable. Our time, our sense of perspective, and our judgment. And they are separating us from each other.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “Lacking meaningful attachments, people are finding a perverse bond in at least sharing a common enemy.”

14. “Lacking meaningful attachments, people are finding a perverse bond in at least sharing a common enemy.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “We’re killing ourselves, both on purpose and accidentally. These aren’t deaths from famine, or poverty, or war. We’re literally dying of despair.”

15. “We’re killing ourselves, both on purpose and accidentally. These aren’t deaths from famine, or poverty, or war. We’re literally dying of despair.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in your work rather than freedom from your work, even when work might hurt.”

16. “A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in your work rather than freedom from your work, even when work might hurt.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “As Putnam demonstrates, poorer, less-educated parents tend to believe that their primary task is getting their children to obey, as opposed to better-educated parents, who emphasize helping their children understand why they ought to obey a given rule. Reading, reasoning, and problem-solving with their parents help children develop the higher-order skills that make them better equipped to face the challenges of a fluid, complex world.”

17. “As Putnam demonstrates, poorer, less-educated parents tend to believe that their primary task is getting their children to obey, as opposed to better-educated parents, who emphasize helping their children understand why they ought to obey a given rule. Reading, reasoning, and problem-solving with their parents help children develop the higher-order skills that make them better equipped to face the challenges of a fluid, complex world.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “I’m a conservative but not because I care very much about the marginal tax rates of the richest Americans, rather I’m a market-oriented localist because I believe in cultural pluralism and I believe in the First Amendment, in voluntarism over compulsion whenever possible, and in as much de-centralized decision-making as is conceivably feasible.”

18. “I’m a conservative but not because I care very much about the marginal tax rates of the richest Americans, rather I’m a market-oriented localist because I believe in cultural pluralism and I believe in the First Amendment, in voluntarism over compulsion whenever possible, and in as much de-centralized decision-making as is conceivably feasible.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “The fact that college campuses, once the cornerstone of free expression and open debate, are now among the most intellectually intolerant spaces in America should concern us deeply.”

19. “The fact that college campuses, once the cornerstone of free expression and open debate, are now among the most intellectually intolerant spaces in America should concern us deeply.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “I believe our entire nation is in the midst of a collective coming-of-age crisis without parallel in our history. We are living in an America of perpetual adolescence. Our kids simply don’t know what an adult is anymore – or how to become one. Many don’t even see a reason to try. Perhaps more problematic, the older generations have forgotten that we need to plan to teach them. It’s our fault more than it is theirs.”

20. “I believe our entire nation is in the midst of a collective coming-of-age crisis without parallel in our history. We are living in an America of perpetual adolescence. Our kids simply don’t know what an adult is anymore – or how to become one. Many don’t even see a reason to try. Perhaps more problematic, the older generations have forgotten that we need to plan to teach them. It’s our fault more than it is theirs.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “Right now partisan tribalism is statistically higher than at any point since the Civil War. Why? It’s certainly not because our political discussions are more important. It’s because the local, human relationships that anchored political talk have shriveled up. Alienated from each other, and uprooted from places we can call home, we’re reduced to shrieking.3.”

21. “Right now partisan tribalism is statistically higher than at any point since the Civil War. Why? It’s certainly not because our political discussions are more important. It’s because the local, human relationships that anchored political talk have shriveled up. Alienated from each other, and uprooted from places we can call home, we’re reduced to shrieking.3.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society.”3.”

22. “Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society.”3.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “When one half of the nation demonizes the other half, tendrils of resentment reach out and strangle whatever charitable impulses remain in us.”

23. “When one half of the nation demonizes the other half, tendrils of resentment reach out and strangle whatever charitable impulses remain in us.”

Ben Sasse Quote: “Death is the hardest question, and in an age that gives short shrift to the transmission of wisdom from old to young, it is not surprising that death is the single most obvious fact of life from which we constantly insulate our kids. We have, to our detriment, created a cult of denial about our own mortality. Life needs to be lived and prioritized with the understanding that it is limited. An.”

24. “Death is the hardest question, and in an age that gives short shrift to the transmission of wisdom from old to young, it is not surprising that death is the single most obvious fact of life from which we constantly insulate our kids. We have, to our detriment, created a cult of denial about our own mortality. Life needs to be lived and prioritized with the understanding that it is limited. An.”

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