Lions and Scavengers Quotes

“Together, the Looters, Lechers, and Barbarians form a Pack.”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“Scavenger is a Lecher: rebellious, perverse,”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“Hitler is the law!’ the legal lights of Nazi Germany proudly proclaimed….”61 What justified all of these rules? As always, the Great Conspiracy Theory, the same myth told over and over again since Cain and Able: the myth of the Haves and the Have-Nots, in which those who Have are the great oppressors of those who Have-Not. In 1942, Hitler spoke before the Reichstag, assuming new powers. He laid out his view of the civilizational conflict clearly and concisely:”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“powers. He laid out his view of the civilizational conflict clearly and concisely:”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“innovation. No one is arguing that people ought to “worship” or “serve” markets, any more than people ought to worship or serve free speech—free speech is a system that simply recognizes human freedom, and large-scale attempts to interfere with that freedom end with disaster. Communities certainly can and should bar”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“The Scavengers’ hatred of free markets forms its own Conspiracy Theory: that free markets are not in fact an evolutionary outgrowth of human nature over time, but an artificial creation by a self-protecting elite. This Conspiracy Theory is common to most of the Left and also part of the Right. Here, for the Left, is Bernie Sanders: “The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational system must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy, and able to live long and productive lives…. Our economic debates should not revolve around questions of resources. They should revolve around questions of intent, and will.”22”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“trade is a moral issue: If you prohibit people from freely controlling their labor and the products thereof, you damn them to a lifetime of unnecessary work.”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“Free markets correct for the imbalance of our natural gifts through the magic of comparative advantage. Trading the thing you are good at for the thing something else is good at is great for both sides; that’s simply specialization. If you’re good at making tennis balls and I’m good at making tennis rackets, it makes sense for us to trade. But comparative advantage makes a broader claim: that even if Party A is better at making tennis balls and rackets than Party B, it may make sense to specialize and then trade. That’s because time matters. If Party A is more efficient at making balls than racquets, then an hour Party A spends making tennis balls is an hour not spent making rackets. This is called opportunity cost. Think about your own life. You may be a smart person, perhaps a person capable of figuring out how to fix your toilet. But let’s say you’re a doctor, and you get paid $300 an hour to be a doctor. An hour you spend plumbing is an hour you’re not doctoring. You’re better off paying a plumber to spend two hours at $50 an hour to fix your toilet than spending one hour of your own time fixing your toilet.”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes—governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions—all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.”14”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“The Looters argue in favor of authoritarian control of thought in order to foreclose the possibility of reversion to the “capitalist mentality.” This is why Soviet Russia ruthlessly quashed freedom of thought. As historian Robert Conquest writes regarding the Stalin era: To die, or lose your loved ones, is bad enough… to be forced to denounce your father or husband, in the hope of saving the rest of the family, and, in general, to be compelled in public to express joy at the whole bloodbath, may be thought worse still. Truth almost perished. As the writer Isaac Babel remarked, “Today a man only talks freely to his wife—at night, with the blankets pulled over his head.”10”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“for the Barbarians, individuals never have thoughts; their thoughts are merely the products of corrupt systems. This is the highest form of the Great Conspiracy Theory possible.”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“For Barbarians, it is the structures of the West that are to blame for a false consciousness among colonized peoples. Fanon,”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“For Lechers, the structures of family and church are to blame for the repressive inauthenticity by which most people lead their daily lives.”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“Looters, as we have seen, the capitalist system is to blame for people thinking individually.”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“Nazism and its murderous barbarism were a reflection of the impulses of the Scavenger, put into practice. Nazism was, above all, a Great Conspiracy Theory: a belief that Germany had been “sold out” by a small cadre of backstabbers during World War I; a perverse notion that true Germanness had been subverted by an alien nation and philosophy within; a hatred for systems of freedom whose results might not accord with the strict racialist hierarchy so beloved by the Nazis, and a recasting of those systems as part of the broader anti-German conspiracy. Hitler, in Mein Kampf, contended that the “Bavarian Center” had sold out the German people to the Jews and Marxists; a “new philosophy” had to be promulgated via the mechanisms of absolute power:”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“This supposed freedom doesn’t result in fulfillment, of course. Instead, Lechery results in deep unhappiness. We are far more than our genitals. We are embedded beings—embedded in our time, embedded in our society, embedded in our family. Removing from us all of those connections leaves us aimless, confused. What’s more, linking our sexual desires with our identities dispenses with other aspects of individuality that have typically characterized human beings: our freedom of action, our reason, our sympathies. Reducing human beings to a Freudian sex impulse flattens them entirely.”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“Ethics of the Fathers teaches, “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“Those who proclaim the uselessness of the Divine rely on the Divine in order to define their own purpose in life.”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America

“Ironically enough, the starting point of science is the totally unprovable precept that the universe is understandable and logical. Without an understandable universe of predictable rules, searching for such rules would be a waste of time. That was Isaac Newton’s point when he stated, “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all.”
― Ben Shapiro, Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America