Girvan Dave

“The problem arises when domains that should be reserved for the intellect are hijacked by feelings. This is precisely what plagues our universities: what were once centers of intellectual development have become retreats for the emotionally fragile. The driving motto of the university is no longer the pursuit of truth but the coddling of hurt feelings.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

“If you don’t fall in love with it in time, you’ll have gotten so big that you imagine that it’s a sport. You have to have been a child the first time your body played and your heart relaxed to know that it’s just a game. And if you’re lucky, really lucky, it never stops being just that.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“The idea that any kind of free society can be constructed in which people will never be offended or insulted, or in which they have the right to call on the law to defend them against being offended or insulted, is absurd.” Moreover: “The moment you say that an idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”6”
― Gad Saad, The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense