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

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

— Ben Shapiro

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

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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.”

— Ben Shapiro

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.”

— Ben Shapiro

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. “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.”

— Ben Shapiro

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

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

— Ben Shapiro

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

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

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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. “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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16. “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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17. “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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18. “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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19. “We don’t live in a perfect world, but we do live in the best world that has ever existed.”

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20. “Okay guys, this is epic!”

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

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22. “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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23. “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.”

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24. “As a society, we have robbed men of their protective missions. Men who seek to protect women and children are called anti-feminist, gender normative. Men have abandoned their responsibilities to the state. As for building things – well, there too, men have been told that to build is to act selfishly, without concern for the community. And young men have no male role models, since many of their fathers have abandoned them or abandoned true maleness in pursuit of vainglorious brutality.”

— Ben Shapiro

25. “Happiness, then, comprises four elements: individual moral purpose, individual capacity, collective moral purpose, and collective capacity.”

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26. “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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27. “And as for social justice, if social is supposed to be opposed to individual, then social justice is by definition unjust. The.”

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

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29. “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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30. “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.”

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31. “The new authority figures of the porn generation are many, and nearly all are members of a coarsened pop culture – one fed by the destructive malaise of the relativist world.”

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32. “The creation story itself is designed to demonstrate how the first man, Adam, used his innate power of choice wrongly – and we are all Adam’s descendants.”

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33. “The Hays Code stated: “When right standards are consistently presented, the motion picture exercises the most powerful influences. It builds character, develops right ideals, inculcates correct principles, and all this in attractive story form. If motion pictures consistently hold up for admiration high types of characters and present stories that will affect lives for the better, they can become the most powerful force for the improvement of mankind.”

— Ben Shapiro

34. “After nearly half a century, it’s easy to forget that the Hays Code was not some outside limitation imposed by the government. It was a content standard imposed by motion picture companies voluntarily.”

— Ben Shapiro

35. “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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36. “Ronald Reagan was not a god. He himself would have said that. Don’t follow people. Follow principle.”

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37. “College students’ sense of moral righteousness doesn’t come from achievement – it comes from believing that you are a bad person. You are a racist and sexist; they are not. That makes them good, even if they don’t give charity, have never met a black person, stand for policies that impoverish minority communities across the United States, and enable America-haters around the globe. It.”

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38. “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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39. “The Founding Fathers were devotees of Cicero and Locke, of the Bible and Aristotle.”

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40. “Let It Go’ is the most popular song for kids in America and it has the Lady GaGa message.”

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

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42. “The best countries – and the best societies – are those where citizens are virtuous enough to sacrifice for the common good but unwilling to be forced to sacrifice for the “greater” good. Flourishing societies require a functional social fabric, created by citizens working together – and yes, separately – toward a meaningful life.”

— Ben Shapiro

43. “The leftist philosophy of violence is simple: It’s good when it’s being used for leftist causes. It’s bad when it’s being used for any other purpose.”

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44. “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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45. “The Passions of men,” Hobbes writes, “are commonly more potent than their Reason.” Reason cannot bring happiness, nor can it be used as the goal of a philosophical life. There is no happiness. There is only striving and security and passion. Reason cannot save us from the war of all against all; only the Leviathan, the power of the state, can.21.”

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46. “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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47. “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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48. “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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49. “After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.”

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50. “A man may be judged by his standard of entertainment as easily as by the standard of his work.”

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