Gad Saad > Quotes

“...These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional “victims” who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.”
― Gad Saad

“Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.”
― Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“Do not fear the loss of a friendship.
Anyone who is willing to end a relationship because of a reasoned difference of opinion is not worthy of your friendship.”
― Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“Science should be about the pursuit of truth, and not about the defense of one’s preferred political ideology or personal beliefs.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“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, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions.”
― Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“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, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“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, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.”
― Gad Saad, Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature

“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, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“We are both thinking and feeling animals. The challenge is to know when to activate the cognitive (thinking) versus the affective (feeling) systems.”
― Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“The next time some academics tell you how important ‘diversity’ is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“Some advice to the SJW castrati: Liberation is found through human agency. Each of us is an individual first with strengths & weaknesses. I am me. My group identities constitute parts of who I am but I expect people to judge me as an individual, not as a member of any group. Classical liberalism is founded on individual rights & freedoms. It is through this mindset that people flourish. Stop identity politics. I'm neither proud nor ashamed of my skin color. I am neither proud nor ashamed of my group affiliation. But I'm proud of my personhood.”
― Gad Saad

“The Ideological Conformity of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Progressives seem to believe that if they say the words “diversity, inclusion, and equity” often enough, all problems will be solved. But of course only certain types of diversity, inclusion, and equity matter. Diversity based on race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity are foundational sacraments in the Cult of Diversity. On the other hand, intellectual and political diversity are heretical ideas that need to be expunged.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“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, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“Anyone who is willing to end a relationship because of a reasoned difference of opinion is not worthy of your friendship.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period.”
― Gad Saad, Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature

“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, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“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, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“Beware of those trying to impress you with confusing word salads.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“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, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“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, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“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, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“Progressives seem to believe that if they say the words “diversity, inclusion, and equity” often enough, all problems will be solved.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“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, Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature

“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, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“An infinite advertising budget cannot counteract products that are disconnected from our biological heritage.”
― Gad Saad, The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature

“I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions [...] or juicy gossip.”
― Gad Saad, Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature

“The problem arises when domains that should be reserved for the intellect are hijacked by feelings.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“Those who believe in equality of outcomes receive top-paying administrative jobs. Those who believe in meritocracy are frowned upon.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense