Top 100 Ben Shapiro Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.”

— Ben Shapiro

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2. “Facts don’t care about your feelings.”

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3. “Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.”

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4. “Never before in our country’s history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged – and yet so empty.”

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5. “Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It’s a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It’s the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.”

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6. “In short, I don’t root against President Obama because I hate America. I root against President Obama because I hate his vision for America.”

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7. “There is no such thing as ‘your truth’. There is the truth and your opinion.”

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8. “Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America’s global enemies sense a failure of will.”

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9. “Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office – like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security – are inalienable rights. They are not.”

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10. “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans.”

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11. “Wait, Wikipedia isn’t working? Why hasn’t someone invented a paper version of it? A set of books organized alphabetically by topic?”

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12. “When facts become secondary to emotion, truth dies. And a society that doesn’t value truth cannot survive.”

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13. “Don’t follow people. Follow principle.”

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14. “The Constitution designed the separation of church and state to prevent people from imposing their particular religions on others, not to stop people from allowing their religious beliefs to influence their views on public policy.”

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15. “Turning a blind eye to evil, however, doesn’t make it disappear. It allows it to grow. And those who allow evil to grow in order to protect their own convenience will be held accountable for the end results of the evil they facilitate.”

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16. “I’ve never seen anyone’s life get better by complaining about reality, I’ve seen it get better by accepting reality as it is and then making personal decisions to make it better.”

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17. “Without a clear moral vision, we devolve into moral relativism, and from there, into oblivion.”

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18. “We don’t live in a perfect world, but we do live in the best world that has ever existed.”

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19. “I would have said, “Why do you have to use victims to illustrate your point? Why can’t you just convince me on the basis of the evidence that what you’re proposing is the right solution for America?”

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20. “It’s far more common for leftists to routinely pick up weapons and try to kill those with whom they disagree than it is for those on the other side of the ideological spectrum.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “Unless you are willing to force people using the law to go to medical school, you cannot have a successful universal healthcare system. That.”

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23. “You know what’s fun? Christmas lights. They are twinkly an pretty and they make me happy, because they are twinkly and pretty.”

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24. “Lasting happiness can only be achieved through cultivation of soul and mind. And cultivating our souls and minds requires us to live with moral purpose.”

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25. “The truth is that your opponent, who labels you a racist without evidence, is the actual racist: it is he who waters down the term racism until it is meaningless by labeling any argument with which he disagrees racist.”

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26. “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.”

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27. “Don’t get caught in the trap of believing you have to know everything about everything.”

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28. “We believe freedom is built upon the twin notions that God created every human in His image, and that human beings are capable of investigating and exploring God’s world. Those notions were born in Jerusalem and Athens, respectively.”

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29. “After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.”

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30. “Conservatives understand that politics simply reflect underlying values. That’s why they are passionate. They don’t vote their pocketbooks. They vote their guts, and their guts tell them that leftism is immoral on the most basic level.”

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31. “In place of moral absolutes, they promote moral relativism and sometimes even question the very existence of truth and reality. To them truth and reality are what we subjectively perceive them to be.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “Okay guys, this is epic!”

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34. “This type of rhetoric is all too common among secularists on the left. They paint a false dichotomy between religion and science. They say that religious people are anti-science, because science makes God irrelevant – therefore, religious people want to stop scientific progress. They point to the fact that many religious people are skeptical about the theory of evolution – as though skepticism of a scientific finding were in and of itself unscientific.”

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35. “The combination of parental abdication and social liberalism in our schools means that kids are easy targets for nihilism and moral subjectivism.”

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36. “The bottom line is this: Miers is a disappointing pick.”

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37. “Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the forces of moral relativism, radical feminism, and generational nihilism have gradually destroyed the foundation of our own greatness. Instead of adopting stronger moral standards, our society has embraced the lure of personal fulfillment.”

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

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39. “If Obama learned one thing from FDR, it was that every socialist needs his foot soldiers.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “1. Why do you think today’s young people are so jaded? Do you feel that the “live and let live” culture has corrupted our moral system? Why do you think American society rejected traditional moral values – the values our founders believed were necessary for our national survival – in favor of moral relativism? How much do you feel our cultural institutions – Hollywood, academia, public schools, and the mass media – are complicit in lowering societal standards?”

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42. “People on the left are taught from childhood that they are better than conservatives – it makes them feel good to hate conservatives. And that hatred is justified because, after all, conservatives are bigots.”

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43. “What makes human beings unique, says Aristotle, is our capacity to reason, and to use that reason to investigate the nature of the world and our purpose in it:.”

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44. “Thomas Jefferson didn’t write that the government was granted power to grant you happiness: it was there to protect your pursuit of happiness. The government existed to protect your rights, to prevent those rights from being infringed upon. The government was there to stop someone from stealing your horse, from butchering you in your sleep, from letting his cow graze on your land. At no point did Jefferson suggest that government could achieve happiness. None of the Founders thought it could.”

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45. “Politics is about working to build the framework for the pursuit of happiness, not the achievement of it; politics helps us establish the preconditions necessary for happiness, but can’t provide happiness in and of itself.”

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46. “Men are destructive in the absence of responsibility.”

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47. “Without God, there is no right and wrong... Anything goes. Life loses value, and with that loss of value comes a loss of societal strength.”

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48. “Authoritarians rarely recognize their own authoritarianism. To them, authoritarianism looks like simple virtue.”

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49. “Like the Bible, Aristotle didn’t define happiness as temporary joy. He saw happiness in a life well-lived.”

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50. “It’s because black, Hispanic and Native-American children are disproportionately likely to live with single mothers. And children living with single mothers misbehave more often than those living with fathers. A study from Great Britain of 14,000 children showed that children were twice as likely to manifest behavioral problems by the age of 7 than those raised by their natural parents. Those numbers continue to diverge as children grow older.”

— Ben Shapiro