Suicidal Empathy Quotes

“Seek Truth and Report It” and “Minimize Harm.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Of note, well before Karl Marx espoused his failed vision of how societies should be organized, the Utopian Socialist Robert Owen had founded New Harmony (Indiana) in 1824.16 Owen thought that a structured society might eliminate some of our “dark” instincts such as the desire to own private property. He would create a well-designed society where everyone lived happily ever after. How empathetic! New Harmony failed miserably. Robert Dale Owen, Robert Owen’s son, arrived at the following conclusion regarding his dad’s efforts to implement Utopian Socialism via the New Harmony community: “All cooperative schemes which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious and the ignorant and idle, must work their own downfall, for by this unjust plan of remuneration they must of necessity eliminate the valuable members—who find their services reaped by the indigent—and retain only the improvident, unskilled, and vicious members.”17 The quest for radical equality as envisioned by the Utopians, socialists, and communists will always fail because it is contrary to human nature.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“The empathetic call to combat the scourge of fat shaming has reached the mecca of progressivism, the city of San Francisco. The city’s public health department hired Virgie Tovar as the city’s weight stigma czar.32 Tovar has the necessary gravitational gravitas (she is fat) to assume this sizable role, a position that is funded by the taxpayers. Undoubtedly, the residents of San Francisco are less concerned with their children walking by the endless drug-infested homeless encampments than ensuring that differently weighted people are free of stigmatization. Diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure are surely less important health concerns than managing the self-esteem of people of girth.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“This captures the extraordinary rot within some “academic” disciplines. The point is never to advance human knowledge through science, reason, and logic but to create narratives of empathy and care rooted in a never-ending recursive web of intersectional victimhood. The scientific method, namely the epistemology for seeking truth, becomes secondary to an epistemology of care:”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“On August 12, 2024, Thierry Breton, who served as a member of the European Commission, sent Elon Musk a letter that is breathtakingly Orwellian.24 Breton warned that should Musk host a chat with then US presidential candidate Donald Trump on X, he “will not hesitate to make full use of our toolbox, including by adopting interim measures, should it be warranted to protect EU citizens from serious harm.” Of course, the reason is always the same with tyrants. They are empathetic protectors who are looking out for your best interest.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“First, anything with which the Empathetic Democrats disagree magically becomes “Russian disinformation,” as per the fact that fifty-one intelligence officers had proclaimed the Hunter Biden laptop story to be. An ugly truth can magically become “Russian disinformation” when it does not suit one’s political aims. Second, when many Trump-hating public figures apparently stated that Donald Trump will end democracy, that he will institute martial law, that he will be a literal dictator indistinguishable from Hitler, such hysteria is not disinformation. It is a Noble and Empathetic Lie because the truth is too important to worry about when seeking to eradicate the Trumpian “existential threat.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Taylor Swift and Leonardo DiCaprio are also empathetic protectors of Mother Earth. Sure, they might gallivant around the globe on private jets,20 but they are important people, unlike all of you selfish degenerates.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“As Sam Harris infamously stated in his appearance on the Triggernometry podcast, “At that point, Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement. I would not have cared.”12 In other words, in an orgiastic and grotesquely immoral manifestation of the ends justify the means, Harris is condoning the suppression of truth if the sharing of such information results in a political outcome that he deems undesirable.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Presumption of innocence is apparently a wonderful idea (to be contrasted, say, with ancient legal codes, which required that the accused prove their innocence11) but it did not apply to Brett Kavanaugh when he was being confirmed as a US Supreme Court justice. Hence, despite the paucity of evidence supporting the accusation that he was a serial rapist, his detractors argued that serving on the Supreme Court was simply too consequential a position to require the evidentiary threshold expected in a court of law.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“namely, some research topics should not be pursued lest they lead to negative consequences.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“First, his work highlighted the fact that blacks are not perpetual victims of white supremacist institutions, be it in education or policing. Suicidal empathy, though, requires that blacks be forevermore perceived as victims in need of saving. Second, Claudine Gay, who eventually ascended to become the first black female president of Harvard, epitomized the suicidal empathy of the diversity, inclusion, and equity cult. It seems unlikely that she could have ascended to such administrative heights had Harvard been committed to a meritocratic ethos. Subsequently, when she was found to have engaged in innumerable cases of plagiarism (which would be grounds to have a student expelled), she retained her $900,000 annual salary.5 Plagiarism does not apparently apply to noble administrators of color.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Suicidal empathy is the proactive will to be victimized for a supposed higher noble goal.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.1”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“This is precisely what the research has found, namely women are much more likely to support woke ideas, including the censorship of free speech in the service of supposed empathetic harm reduction, emotional safety, kindness, and inclusivity (among many other forms of wokeism and social justice activism).”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“When voting for a political candidate, people end up being largely driven by their emotions (“Donald Trump disgusts me”) rather than by a coherent set of cognitive justifications (“I disagree with Donald Trump’s immigration and fiscal policies for reasons X, Y, and Z”).”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Here are two prototypical sentiments: “We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.”59 Linda Gordon went much further in her antipathy toward families and, of course, capitalism: “The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. Furthermore, this process must precede as well as follow the overthrow of capitalism, for unless some brave souls develop new living patterns now, the pressures towards retrenchment that seem to follow most revolutions may stifle our advance. Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.”60 Lest the reader might think that the destruction of the family unit is so passé, Marxist feminist Kathi Weeks has recently reaffirmed the empathetic objective of family abolition.61 The latest conveyor belt of unhinged hysterics probably believe that the abolition of the family unit will contribute to fight against climate change.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Incredibly, a person’s level of empathy is correlated to their likelihood of exhibiting contagious yawning. To the extent that contagious yawning constitutes a form of mirroring, people who are more empathetic are more likely to exhibit this physiological contagion.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Popper’s falsification theory is antithetical to the notion of “settled science.” Science is never settled. It is always provisional. In other words, it possesses the epistemological humility to recognize that that which is construed as true today might be falsified tomorrow. This is the history of intellectual thought, and to posit otherwise in the name of some misguided calculus of empathy is the epitome of anti-science reasoning. As Popper so poignantly stated, “The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.”8 Of note, Popper’s “paradox of tolerance” (to tolerate the intolerable), which he famously explained in The Open Society and Its Enemies, stems from the reflex of suicidal empathy.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind