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Gad Saad QUOTES

1 " roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period. "

― Gad Saad , The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature

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

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

4 " the desperate need to belong is perhaps never as great as during adolescence. Advertisers seek to communicate with teenagers by frequently using that powerful appeal. "

― Gad Saad , The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature

5 " ...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

6 " Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces. "

― Gad Saad , The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature

7 " Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings. "

― Gad Saad , The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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

9 " Emotions such as happiness. fear, lust, disgust, or envy, serve as solutions to recurring evolutionary challenges that our ancestors have faced. "

― Gad Saad , The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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

11 " 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

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

13 " 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

14 " 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

15 " 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

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

17 " 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

18 " 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

19 " 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

20 " 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