Quotes by Ben Shapiro

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of Gods sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, arent about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

When we say less fortunate, we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally less fortunate only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive.

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.

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

Obamacare has made the government part of our health care decisions. The IRS controls all of our financial information. The NSA apparently sees everything else.

With the dramatic increase in ease of transportation and the incredible decrease in the amount of time required to travel between far-flung areas of the United States, representatives began spending more and more time in Washington and less and less time in their home districts.

Washingtons birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.

The argument that gay marriage doesnt affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

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.

What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then youre fine.

Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And weve had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?

Distrust of government isnt baseless cynicism. Its realism.

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.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. Its a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. Its the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of The New York Times sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the Times alleged sexist pay discrepancy only made those shock waves stronger.

In actuality, California could be a wonderful place to live. In fact, if youre 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.

Americas liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.

President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. Its an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.

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.