Benjamin Aaron Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator, public speaker, author, and lawyer. At age 17, he became the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the United States. He is a writer and producer, known for The Ben Shapiro Show (2015), Daily Wire Backstage (2018) and No Safe Spaces. Thoughtful Ben Shapiro quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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The story of Detroit’s bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, and promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat. Ben Shapiro
By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints. Ben Shapiro
Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul killing lassitude. There’s a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going. Ben Shapiro
Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other. Ben Shapiro
Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes thought crime becomes a reality. Ben Shapiro
Distrust of government isn’t baseless cynicism. It’s realism. Ben Shapiro
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue. Ben Shapiro
Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It’s a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually, the sand in the hourglass runs out. It’s the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most. Ben Shapiro
Let’s assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the Every President Gets a Trophy’ ethos? Ben Shapiro
Facts don’t care about your feelings. Ben Shapiro
In actuality, California could be a wonderful place to live. In fact, if you’re highly educated and ambitious, you can do quite well here while enjoying the sun and the fun. The only problem: California will then blame you for your success and recommend that all your cash be removed from you. Ben Shapiro
Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality. Ben Shapiro
When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state. Ben Shapiro
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility takers or those who demand from others. Ben Shapiro
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don’t give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution. Ben Shapiro
Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, she’s harsh and demanding. According to those who haven’t like her husband she’s a delight. Ben Shapiro
Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases. Ben Shapiro
I’ve never seen anyone’s life get better by complaining about reality, I’ve seen it get better by accepting reality as it is and then making personal decisions to make it better. Ben Shapiro
Same sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us the Supreme Court, President Obama against traditional religion. Ben Shapiro
In actuality, California could be a wonderful place to live. In fact, if you’re highly educated and ambitious, you can do quite well here while enjoying the sun and the fun. The only problem: California will then blame you for your success and recommend that all your cash be removed from you. Ben Shapiro
When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility. Ben Shapiro
Kids are fat because of lack of parenting. Ben Shapiro
It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh. Ben Shapiro
Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul killing lassitude. There’s a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going. Ben Shapiro
The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander in chief. Ben Shapiro
Liberals in Hollywood can’t stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television. Ben Shapiro
President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010. Ben Shapiro
Occupy Wall Street is just like the Arab Spring. Both are run by people who don’t shower, hate American capitalism, and despise Israel. Ben Shapiro
Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other. Ben Shapiro
President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country. Ben Shapiro
Noah’ doesn’t merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it’s bound to do that although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous. It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism. Ben Shapiro
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses bare chested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning. Ben Shapiro
Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don’t see them at the grocery store; they don’t meet them at the bowling alley. They’re more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall. Ben Shapiro
Renewable energy: dumbest phrase since climate change. See the first law of thermodynamics, dumbass. Ben Shapiro
The vast majority of murdered whites are murdered by other whites. That’s why there’s no national outrage when a white person is killed by a black person: it’s not evidence of some underlying black violence problem directed against white people. Ben Shapiro
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don’t give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution. Ben Shapiro
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values. Ben Shapiro
The argument, I guess here, is that would you kill baby Hitler? And the truth is that no pro life person on earth would kill baby Hitler, because baby Hitler wasn’t Hitler, adult Hitler was Hitler. Baby Hitler was a baby. What you presumably want to do with baby Hitler is take baby Hitler out of baby Hitler’s house and move baby Hitler into a better house where he would not grow up to be Hitler, right? That’s the idea. Ben Shapiro
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force. Ben Shapiro
The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life. Ben Shapiro
Technically, web browsers can control what users see, and sites using Javascript can overwrite anything coming from the original authors. Browsers heavily utilize Javascript to create an interactive Internet; sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail could be crippled without it. Ben Shapiro
The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state. Ben Shapiro
By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints. Ben Shapiro
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue. Ben Shapiro
Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses bare chested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning. Ben Shapiro
The story of Detroit’s bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat. Ben Shapiro
During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again. Ben Shapiro
The vast majority of murdered whites are murdered by other whites. That’s why there’s no national outrage when a white person is killed by a black person: it’s not evidence of some underlying black violence problem directed against white people. Ben Shapiro
The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life. Ben Shapiro
Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It’s a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It’s the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most. Ben Shapiro
When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system or to settle into depressed complacency. Ben Shapiro
Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America’s global enemies sense a failure of will. Ben Shapiro
