Gad Saad Quotes

Our African ancestors were the first to engage in breathing. By that logic, I think by breathing today, we are engaging in cultural appropriation of the first Homo sapiens. And so the only way I will ask you to stop being racist is to suffocate - to stop breathing.

Your son is drowning. A Jewish firefighter jumps in the ice water risking his life to save your non-Jewish son. Your response: "Jews are anti-white. Jews own pornography. Jews are genocidal killers. Jews brought the Muslims here because they hate the whites." The firefighter is going to feel rather unappreciated. Every single day, I fight for Canadian values, freedoms, and liberties, and every day I receive innumerable messages of hate about my being Jewish. My being Jewish is the 1,003,345th interesting thing about me but to Jew-haters, it is the only thing that defines me.

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.

Bill Warner, a former professor of physics and founder of the Center for the Study of Political Islam has conducted content analyses on the three canonical sources of Islam: the Qur'an (which represents the inherent, universal, and eternal word of Allah), the hadith (the amalgamation of the traditions, deeds, and sayings of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam), and the Sira (the biography of Muhammad). Warner has analyzed the percentages of the three texts that are devoted to the Kafir (pejorative term for non-Muslims), to Jew-hatred, to politics, and to Jihad (holy war against non-believers). The conclusions are striking. For example, 51 percent of the trilogy of texts is devoted to uncomplimentary and unloving portrayals of the Kafir, and there is more Jew-hatred in the trilogy (9.3 percent) than in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (7 percent).

We are both thinking and feeling animals. The challenge is to know when to activate the cognitive (thinking) versus the affective (feeling) systems.

Close friendships are truly vestiges of our biological heritage.

A fair society ensures that its members have equality of opportunities and not equality of outcomes

Truth is anti-fragile. It is not brittle. It does not shatter into a million pieces because of an -offensive and hurtful- joke. An individual with a strong personhood can laugh at others (in a playful manner) and laugh at himself. Humor is a test of anti-fragility and non-brittleness in a person and in a society. A society that can’t laugh at others and at itself in a good-humored way is on its way out.

Once these mind viruses take hold of one’s neuronal circuitry, the afflicted victim loses the ability to use reason, logic, and science to navigate the world. Instead, one sinks into an abyss of infinite lunacy best defined by a dogged and proud departure from reality, common sense, and truth.

Universities need to return to the meritocratic ethos they once had and to resist commodifying education and lowering academic standards.

The future must belong to those who criticize, mock, ridicule, and satirize all prophets, ideas, religions, and ideologies.

Just as your electricity or phone line is not shut off if the electric company or phone company doesn’t like what you say, social media platforms should not be in the business of monitoring and punishing speech.

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

For the former, the operative sequence is thinking–feeling–behavior: an informed opinion leads to liking the product; hence, its purchase.

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