Gad Saad Quotes

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.

If an idea is veridical, it should be anti-fragile. It should be capable of withstanding ironic, satirical, and sarcastic attacks. If it is too brittle to do so, it is undoubtedly a falsehood.

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.

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.

Hence, it is true that both sharia law and progressive identity politics adhere to the exact same principle.

most people today are unwilling to speak their minds lest they be unfriended by an acquaintance on Facebook.

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.

Since its founding in the seventh century, Islam has subjugated, converted, or killed hundreds of millions of people. The FBI maintains a global list of its most wanted global terrorists. Twenty-six out of the current twenty-eight member that compose this infamous group are connected to Islamic groups. Though Muslims make up roughly 25 percent of the world's population, they comprise 92.9 percent of terrorists on the FBI list.

"Having children develop a preference for McDonald's (via advertising) is "evil", but teaching them Bronze Age supertitions that are antiethical to every rational and scientific tenet is not."

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.

Humans are not indistinguishable and equal worker ants. E. O. Wilson, the Harvard entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is reputed to have said of socialism: “Great idea. Wrong species.

Each time that a terrorist attack takes place in some Western city, nauseating hordes of cowards do one of two things: 1) Change their social media handles to the flag of the country that was attacked 2) Share a hashtag on Twitter to signal their solidarity with a given cause

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

Close friendships are truly vestiges of our biological heritage.

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.