Top 100 Dinesh D'Souza Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.”

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2. “Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism – it is in human nature.”

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3. “Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.”

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4. “Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.”

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5. “The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.”

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6. “Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.”

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7. “Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.”

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8. “I’m a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.”

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9. “Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.”

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10. “Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.”

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11. “And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic.”

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12. “The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.”

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13. “In short, climate change is the ruse to get the public to go for full socialism.”

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14. “I’m completely Americanized – I have an American accent, an American wife – but a residue of me is foreign.”

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15. “The American left’s motto comes from the English Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw: “Any government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul’s support.”

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16. “The American Revolution was characterized by three basic freedoms: economic freedom or capitalism, political freedom or constitutional democracy, and freedom of speech and religion. These are the freedoms that, in their original form, American conservatives seek to conserve.”

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17. “Goldberg argues that fascism and communism, far from being opposites, are “closely related historical competitors for the same constituents.”

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18. “America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being – confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented – is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.”

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19. “The bad guys – the Democrats – put up a great fight but the Republicans won in the end. It was Republicans who made possible the Civil Rights laws that finally and belatedly secured equal rights for blacks and other minorities. Democrats are the ones who bitterly resisted the Civil Rights Movement, and had the Democrats been the only party in America at the time, none of these laws, from the Civil Rights Act to the Voting Rights Act to the Fair Housing Bill, would have passed.”

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20. “In India, I learned a proverb that may seem somewhat heartless: “The tears of strangers are only water.” It means we are obligated to help only our own; if others have a problem, we wish them well, but it’s their problem.”

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21. “The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.”

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22. “I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.”

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23. “Fascism is an Italian term that means “groupism” or “collectivism.” The fasci in Italy were groups of political activists who got their name from the fasces of ancient Rome – the bundles of rods carried by the lictors to symbolize the unified strength of the Romans. The core meaning of the term fascism is that people are stronger in groups than they are as individuals.”

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24. “In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.”

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25. “Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.”

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26. “America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.”

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27. “Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.”

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28. “The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.”

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29. “While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic.”

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30. “For me, victory isn’t measured by winning in the traditional sense.”

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31. “If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in Islamic societies because coerced virtues are not virtues at all.”

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32. “In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance.”

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33. “America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.”

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34. “Today we think of fascism’s most famous representative as Adolf Hitler. Yet as I mentioned earlier, Hitler didn’t consider himself a fascist. Rather, he saw himself as a National Socialist. The two ideologies are related in that they are both based on collectivism and centralized state power. They emerge, one might say, from a common point of origin. Yet they are also distinct; fascism, for instance, had no intrinsic connection with anti-Semitism in the way that National Socialism did.”

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35. “Mussolini envisioned a powerful centralized state directing the institutions of the private sector, forcing their private welfare into line with the national welfare. Isn’t this precisely how progressives view the federal government’s control of banks, finance companies, insurance companies, health care, energy, and education?”

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36. “There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.”

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37. “What I’ve realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it’s very powerful.”

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38. “Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.”

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39. “If religion is so bad, what should be done about it? It should be eradicated. According to Sam Harris, belief in Christianity is like belief in slavery. “I would be the first to admit that the prospects for eradicating religion in our time do not seem good. Still the same could have been said about efforts to abolish slavery at the end of the eighteenth century.”6 But.”

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40. “Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.”

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41. “With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.”

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42. “The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong – it is obscene.”

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43. “Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.”

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44. “It’s all very well to talk about the nation of producers and the interests of the nation, but who decides what its true interests are? Socialists claim to be in favor of equitable redistribution of income and wealth, but who determines what is equitable and does the actual redistribution? To these questions, the fascists answered: we do, through the instrument of the powerful centralized state. And this is also, in America, the answer that today’s progressives give.”

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45. “For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what’s in it for them.”

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46. “Do you believe in the existence of Socrates? Alexander the Great? Julius Caesar? If historicity is established by written records in multiple copies that date originally from near contemporaneous sources, there is far more proof for Christ’s existence than for any of theirs.”

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47. “Vicious fights among socialist and leftist factions are a recognized feature of the history of socialism.”

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48. “What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.”

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49. “Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama’s new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.”

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50. “While the Venezuelan people starve, the Chavistas post photographs on Facebook of their European vacations, their lavish parties, their designer outfits, the bouquets of fresh flowers that adorn their homes.”

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