Top 50 Gad Saad Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.”

— Gad Saad

2. “In a free society, people should have the right to criticize a religion; they should have the right to do so, and of course their criticisms are themselves open to criticism; that is the essence of freedom of speech and thought.”

— Gad Saad

3. “E. O. Wilson, the Harvard entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is reputed to have said of socialism: “Great idea. Wrong species.” Any system that is built on a false understanding of human nature is doomed to fail.”

— Gad Saad

4. “Science is based on evidence, not politics. In science knowing is always preferable to not knowing.”37 But today in academia, progressive ideology trumps scientific facts.”

— Gad Saad

5. “No other religion has come even remotely close to Islam in inspiring, justifying, or supporting terrorism. And yet, the progressive intelligentsia insist that none of these documented attacks have anything to do with Islam.”

— Gad Saad

6. “Hope is an elixir of life. It is the engine that propels us forward in our pursuit of countless goals, all of which might otherwise be impossible to undertake if we were bereft of hope.”

— Gad Saad

7. “Those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome cannot see that for 63 million Americans, voting for Trump was an obviously rational decision.”

— Gad Saad

8. “In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism.”

— Gad Saad

9. “In the West, the ideological indoctrination is subtler. It is achieved by an ethos of political correctness and best enforced by creating university campuses that lack intellectual diversity. Political correctness is like the sting of the spider wasp. Recall that the afflicted spider is dragged to the wasp’s burrow in a zombie-like state and is subsequently eaten in vivo by the wasp’s offspring.”

— Gad Saad

10. “Any system that is built on a false understanding of human nature is doomed to fail. Building a society where the primary objective is to protect one’s fragile self-esteem from the dangers of competition will only lead to a society of weakness, entitlement, and apathy. Life is necessarily competitive; society is necessarily hierarchical. It does no one any favors to pursue a utopian vision of society where no one’s feelings are hurt.”

— Gad Saad

11. “The “us versus them” mindset coupled with our social nature implies that we have an innate need to belong to clearly defined in-groups.”

— Gad Saad

12. “One problem we face today is that consequentialists make a virtue of having emotions cloud our judgments, not only to avoid hurt feelings but because emotion is seen as a sign of authenticity.”

— Gad Saad

13. “Oh, you are a non-binary bisexual chemist? Well this completely changes the atomic numbers of Carbon, Palladium, and Uranium.”

— Gad Saad

14. “Beware of those trying to impress you with confusing word salads.”

— Gad Saad

15. “The greater the number of people present, the less likely an individual is to help someone in need because it is easier to rationalize that someone else will do it.”

— Gad Saad

16. “Therein lies the incongruity between progressive self-flagellants and the rest of us. What they consider introspectively virtuous and pious, we view as weak and self-loathing.”

— Gad Saad

17. “An infinite advertising budget cannot counteract products that are disconnected from our biological heritage.”

— Gad Saad

18. “Science should be about the pursuit of truth, and not about the defense of one’s preferred political ideology or personal beliefs.”

— Gad Saad

19. “A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree, and he turns away. Show him facts or figures, and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic, and he fails to see your point.”

— Gad Saad

20. “The problem arises when domains that should be reserved for the intellect are hijacked by feelings.”

— Gad Saad

21. “Progressives consider it laudable to criticize, mock, or insult all religious beliefs – except for the one untouchable faith. To attack Islam in the West is “Islamophobic,” “racist,” and “bigoted.”

— Gad Saad

22. “When parasitized by such a conspiratorial and delusional mindset, the bikini becomes a sexist tool of the patriarchy whereas the burqa is liberating and freeing since it averts the male gaze.”

— Gad Saad

23. “Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces.”

— Gad Saad

24. “Anyone who is willing to end a relationship because of a reasoned difference of opinion is not worthy of your friendship.”

— Gad Saad

25. “Free societies do no recoil and the power of satire. They recognize that all beliefs and ideologies are fair game. Once we delimit what can be satirized, we are no longer living in a free society.”

— Gad Saad

26. “There is no “black mind” or “white mind”, no “white male of knowing”, there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method.”

— Gad Saad

27. “In the immortal words of George Orwell, “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”

— Gad Saad

28. “Progressives seem to believe that if they say the words “diversity, inclusion, and equity” often enough, all problems will be solved.”

— Gad Saad

29. “Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.”

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30. “Incidentally, if you are a non-racist white person who does not appreciate being accused of supporting white supremacy, you undoubtedly suffer from white fragility.”

— Gad Saad

31. “Why should people in a free country be afraid of saying what they believe? Think about that, and you will know the direction that the “progressives” want to take us.”

— Gad Saad

32. “But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.” – John Stuart Mill1.”

— Gad Saad

33. “To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions.”

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34. “Someone should advise women to stop fantasizing about courageous firefighters and heroic uniformed soldiers. There is a new sheriff in town who epitomizes a progressive definition of masculinity: Apathetic Cowardly Bystander Man.”

— Gad Saad

35. “The radical snake always ends up eating its tail. ISIS kills all Muslims who are not Muslim enough. Progressives denounce all those who are not progressive enough.”

— Gad Saad

36. “In Unicornia, all people are just as likely to be terrorists. To think otherwise is to be a hateful bigot.”

— Gad Saad

37. “I quickly learned that most academic feminists were profoundly hostile to evolutionary psychology.”

— Gad Saad

38. “Those who believe in equality of outcomes receive top-paying administrative jobs. Those who believe in meritocracy are frowned upon.”

— Gad Saad

39. “Though Muslims make up roughly 25 percent of the world’s population, they comprise 92.9 percent of terrorists on the FBI list.”

— Gad Saad

40. “In short, if your average voter had five key issues in mind, scored each candidate on them, and weighted them in order of importance, it was easy to understand how perfectly reasonable and rational people might have voted for Donald Trump without being deplorable bigots.”

— Gad Saad

41. “If you want to know what’s wrong with higher education, this reversal of traditional university priorities – with social justice now at the top and scholarship lower on the totem pole – is a good place to start.”

— Gad Saad

42. “We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate.”

— Gad Saad

43. “The English historian Henry Thomas Buckle famously remarked: “Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest, by their preference for the discussion of ideas.”

— Gad Saad

44. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire.”

— Gad Saad

45. “The general idea is that we must weigh our freedom of speech against the right of others to not be offended. No! Freedom of speech is precisely meant to protect the most obnoxious, offensive, and disgusting speech. It does not exist to ensure that you only levy beautiful compliments at me. Occasionally being offended is the price that one pays for living in a truly free society.”

— Gad Saad

46. “I opened up my rebuttal by explaining that there are only two types of theories: Those that divide the world into two types of theories, and those that do not.”

— Gad Saad

47. “In the land of progressive Unicornia, science is only valuable if it is consistent with ideological dogma. Otherwise it is nothing more than bigoted hate facts.”

— Gad Saad

48. “The human instinct to protect one’s beliefs from the indignity of being challenged transcends an individual’s political orientation.44 It is a frailty of the human spirit, and as such, it is not restricted to liberals or conservatives. Few people possess the intellectual courage to expose their most cherished positions to opposing perspectives. The human ego is brittle and frail.”

— Gad Saad

49. “How far do you go back unfolding history until you find the villain of your choice?”

— Gad Saad

50. “Similarly, social justice warriors and their ilk are intellectual terrorists, and they can wreak havoc on reason and our public life, limiting people’s willingness to speak and think freely, without ever constituting a majority.”

— Gad Saad