10 Books That Screwed Up the World Quotes

“Niceness, howled Nietzsche, is what is left of goodness when it is drained of greatness.”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“Skepticism is a kind of intellectual disease that generally arises among people who are both well fed and well read.”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“The lesson learned—or that should have been learned—by such epic destruction is this: once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“Since it all appeared so scientific, and we wanted to hear it, Kinsey’s pseudo-science became foundational for the sexual revolution, used both in courts and classrooms to push a limitless sexual revolution that began in the 1960s and through which we are still living. This revolution will not be over until it has overthrown all sexual boundaries, which means that it will not be complete until it extinguishes all opposition, the greatest of which is Christianity. Once again, we see atheism at the root of rebellion.”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“[A] intensidade da autodestruição da humanidade é uma medida do mito pelo qual ela se orienta.”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“As a matter of fact,” Sanger assures the reader, “Birth Control has been accepted by the most clear thinking and far seeing of the Eugenicists themselves as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.”4”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“Historically, then, Christianity in its original form was transformed into liberal Christianity, and finally into godless utilitarianliberalism. In this transformation, all the original asceticism, the absolute demands, the passionate desire to suffer with and for Christ, the difficult virtues, the awe before the divine, the self-abnegation, and the saintly heroic struggle were degraded through liberal Christianity and then through godless utilitarian liberalism into a kind of charity of softness that demanded nothing while it provided for every earthly comfort. This destruction of Christianity therefore brought about the utilitarian “green-pasture happiness of the herd, with security, lack of danger, comfort, and an easier life for everyone” [...] In this sense, Nietzsche the adamant atheist and self-proclaimed “AntiChrist” could lament the death of God: it has led to the ultimate “animalization of man into the dwarf animal of equal rights and claims.”
― Benjamin Walker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“We should reconsider cruelty and open our eyes,” chides Nietzsche. “Almost everything we call ‘higher culture’ is based on the spiritualization of cruelty, on its becoming more profound: this is my proposition.” Breaking the four-minute mile demanded the superior abilities of Roger Bannister coupled with intense, painful training. Endless hours of excruciating self-denial went into Michelangelo’s adornment of the Sistine Chapel. The glories of the pyramids were made possible by the relentless cruelty of slave labor. Such is the cost of all human greatness. It pays in the coin of pain, and hence greatness itself would be destroyed by maximizing pleasure and comfort and treating pain itself as simply evil.”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“fashioned in the image of God, that he is to love his wife as himself, and that he should regard his children as precious miracles bearing his and his wife’s image.”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“The cow needs to be milked and there’s no time for udder confusion.”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“Consider a report from the British newspaper The Observer three years ago: in the Ukraine, suffering so long under the atheist Soviet foot, pregnant women were being paid about $180 for their fetuses, which the abortion clinics turned around and sold for about $9,000. Why? The tissue was being used for beauty treatments. Pregnant women were and still are being paid to kill their babies so aging Russian women can rejuvenate their skin with fetal cosmetics.”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“No good we experience now can possibly outweigh having to suffer eternally in hell. Furthermore, as God is all-powerful, then no seeming necessity or benefit of an evil action in this life can really be necessary or beneficial to anyone from the perspective of eternity. To believe otherwise is only a temptation; in fact, the temptation.”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“prince should thus take care,” notes Machiavelli, returning to his list of virtues, “that nothing escape his mouth that is not full of the above-mentioned five qualities” so that “he should appear all mercy, all faith, all honesty, all humanity, all religion. And nothing is more necessary to appear to have than this last quality.” It is most important that rulers—and even more so, would-be rulers—appear to be religious. “Everyone sees how you appear,” but “few touch what you are,” and appearing to be religious assures those who see you that, because you appear to believe in God, you can be trusted to have all the other virtues. In politics, some things never change.”
― Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help