Suicidal Empathy Quotes

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

“Interestingly, given that women score higher on empathy than men, they are more likely to prefer socialism over capitalism, whereas men prefer capitalism.”
― 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

“Empathy is an evolutionarily selected virtue, which, when properly deployed, serves as a reminder that human beings are a social species capable of immeasurable good. But never forget that it must be invoked at the right time, in the right amount, and to the right targets. Otherwise, it becomes a liability that is gamed by those who wish to destroy us.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“The quest for radical equality as envisioned by the Utopians, socialists, and communists will always fail because it is contrary to human nature. The establishment of hierarchies within human societies is a universal reality, albeit there are ecological conditions wherein it would have been adaptive to promote a form of egalitarianism to maintain cohesion among a group.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Although communism masquerades as justice, it is the worst kind of inverted egalitarianism.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“People tend to become more conservative as they get older because many of the progressive tenets are rooted in an infantile ethos of empathy.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“We have evolved a sense of revenge precisely because there are countless situations wherein it would have made evolutionary sense for us to be potentially vengeful.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“-Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.- The general argument is that societies decay because of the self-inflicted failures of their elites in a myriad of ways.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Reality does not abide by your feelings. Knowledge is either true or false, irrespective of your level of offense. Well-adjusted individuals in free and dignified societies navigate through the world armed with an accurate understanding of reality (and not wishful Unicornia), propelled by the power of the otto that -knowledge is power-. Be empathetic to the truth.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Yes, there are endless nice and decent people in the world, but equally there are those who are willing to cause you great harm. Understanding how to navigate this reality allows you to hopefully avoid unnecessary dangers.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.34”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“largesse. It is always easy to be generous and noble with other people’s money.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Some people are more talented, hardworking, driven, smarter, and innovative. In a free society, there is nothing unfair about the fact that distinct individuals end up with different outcomes.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“In their view, there is something existentially unfair about having winners and losers in the competitive game of life. If person A makes more money than person B in a socialist utopia, it can only stem from the dynamics between the oppressors (those who succeed) and the oppressed (those who failed). In other words, that one person is greatly more successful than another must be inherently and existentially unfair.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“When parasitic socialists such as Bernie Sanders scream that the wealthy should pay their fair share of taxes, one wonders what that might be. The Tax Foundation states, “In 2016, the top 1 percent of taxpayers accounted for more income taxes paid than the bottom 90 percent combined.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Ultimately, a moral and just society would place a ceiling on the amount of taxes that you could levy from any individual in any given year. But the opposite occurs under our so-called progressive taxation system. The more money that I make, the more entrepreneurial I am, the more risks that I take, the harder that I work, the more intellectual content that I create, the more punitive and confiscatory the tax rate becomes.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“To delusional empaths, income inequality is so unfair and mean. Taxing people to death can be so kind and liberating.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“All the misguided empathy inherent to the supposed “fairness” of communism/socialism cannot eradicate the fact that humans are not social ants, and as such to impose a system that is against our nature is the epitome of lacking empathy in recognizing our phylogenetic history.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“People tend to become more conservative as they get older because many of the progressive tenets are rooted in an infantile ethos of empathy. What sounds nice to a young and naive mind is autocorrected by life’s experiences.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“In other words, because of the sampling from life’s experiences, is one more likely to start off as a liberal and become more conservative, or vice versa? The maxim “If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart, and if you are not a conservative when old, you have no brain” implies a recurring pattern, which has been empirically validated across several cultures.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Aviation is another industry that one would hope is strictly rooted in an ethos of meritocracy. But this is precisely what an ableist bigot would say.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“But as we all now know, meritocracy and scientific knowledge are tantamount to white supremacy. Hence, the suicidally empathetic members of the Anti-Racism Expert Working Group of CanMEDS (an organization that develops evolving training codes for physicians and surgeons in Canada) came up with the following conclusion: “A new model of CanMEDS would seek to centre values such as anti-oppression, anti-racism, and social justice, rather than medical expertise.”50 You read that correctly. Medical expertise should take a back seat to the real global disease, white supremacy.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“If there aren’t enough full professors of mathematics at Princeton University who are black trans women, it must be that the mathematics department is racist and transphobic.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“The University of Michigan, where I faced one of the most hostile academic audiences back in 2008, has over 500 DIE positions costing $30 million in payroll.19 Imagine the number of leading professors who could have been hired with that wasted money.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Hence, within the past one hundred years, my own family’s reality and that of my wife are defined by an endless escape from literal executions and genocides. But apparently, I knew nothing about oppression until I was again taught about my privilege via the empathetic employer training seminar.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“have had to follow a training titled “Recognizing Attitudes, Changing Behaviour [annual training for ‘sexual violence awareness and prevention’]” and a second one “Systems of Oppression and Intersectionality.” I feel fortunate to have a benevolent employer that patiently teaches me the proper ways to interact with women (including women with penises). I had apparently spent my entire life, well into my fifties, floundering in utter darkness when it came to knowing how to act as a civilized human being.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“I reached out to an old friend whom I had not seen in years. I consider him to be a gentle and sensitive person, albeit I found out that his empathetic disposition does not extend to those who might be favorably disposed to Donald Trump. He sent me a note advising me that considering my apparent support of Trump (I am Canadian), it was infeasible for us to maintain our friendship.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“Democrats, though, are much less empathetic than Republicans toward fellow Americans, friends, family members, and romantic partners who might hold differing political opinions.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

“In a perfect manifestation of forbidden knowledge, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a physician and leading proponent of gender-affirming care, did not release the results of a $10 million study funded by taxpayers because it found that the patients’ mental well-being did not improve after receiving such “care.”
― Gad Saad, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind