How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them Quotes

“SHAPIRO: This is astonishing. MORGAN: What’s astonishing? SHAPIRO: What’s astonishing about it is for weeks now, you have been saying that anybody who disagrees with your position is absurd, idiotic, and doesn’t care about the dead kids in Sandy Hook. And then when I say that it’s a bullying tactic, you turn around and that say I’m bullying you for saying that. It’s absurd. It’s ridiculous.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Now, twenty years later, Candice Bergen, who played Murphy Brown, admitted Quayle was right – but at the time, Quayle was running for re-election, and so he had to be wrong.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“But it’s because conservatives don’t think about how to win that they constantly lose.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“There are almost invariably unbridgeable inconsistencies in the left’s publicly stated positions that are at war with their actual fundamental principles. Your goal is to make the left admit once and for all what they believe about policy by exposing those inconsistencies.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The Institutional Takeover The leftist bullies have taken over the major institutions of the United States. The university system has been monopolized by a group of folks who believe that it’s no longer worthwhile debating the evidence on tax rates, or whether the Laffer curve is right, or whether Keynesian policies actually promote economic growth. They don’t want to debate those issues. What they want to teach instead is that is you are personally ignorant, bigoted, corrupt, and mean if you disagree with them. Their opinions are not opinions; they are fact. This is the hallmark of being stuck inside a bubble. The people who occupy the professoriate have not had to work a real job – a job with real-world consequences -- in over 30 years. They’ve lived on a campus where everyone agrees with them, convincing them that their beliefs are universally-held. Anyone who disagrees is a “flat earther.” Anyone who disagrees is a monster. You are a monster.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“People on the left are taught from childhood that they are better than conservatives – it makes them feel good to hate conservatives. And that hatred is justified because, after all, conservatives are bigots.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“And here’s what Barack Obama and his surrogates said about Mitt Romney: Mitt Romney is the worst guy since Mussolini. Mitt Romney is the guy who straps dogs to the top of cars. Mitt Romney is the kind of guy who wants to “put y’all back in chains.” Mitt Romney is leading a “war on women” and, in fact, has compiled a binder full of women that he can then use to prosecute his war. Mitt Romney is the type of guy who would specifically fire an employee so that five years later his wife would die of cancer thanks to lack of health insurance. Mitt Romney would take his money and put it in an overseas bank account specifically to deprive the American people of money. The Obama campaign slogan: “Romney: Rich, Sexist, Racist Jackass.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“You can try to hide from the attacks of the left; you can run away from them, attempt to ignore them, pretend that the left has reached some sort of quasi-consensus in which they live and let live. That will last until the protesters are outside your business, the government regulators are outside your house, or the administrators are inside your child’s classroom. Then you’ll realize that while you were willing to let live, the left simply wasn’t.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“I liked George W. Bush, but his second term was a disaster area. So was much of his first term. I don’t feel the necessity to defend his Iran policy, because it was terrible. Period. Ronald Reagan was not a god. He himself would have said that. Don’t follow people. Follow principle.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Leftists prefer to argue half-measures in which they don’t truly believe. For example, they say they want to ban assault weapons to stop gun murders. But that argument is silly, because handguns are used to kill far more people than so-called assault weapons. And yet the left won’t argue in favor of a blanket gun ban, because they know they will lose.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“For decades, conservatives have been hit by bullies. And there’s only one way to deal with bullies. In the words of the White House, punch back twice as hard.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“But you don’t have to hate it. In fact, it can be an absolute blast. The moment you don’t give a damn what they say about you because you realize they’re lying is the moment you have the upper hand.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“There’s a reason that major Democratic candidates work with Hollywood.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The left is expert at imagistics. The right is not, because the right falsely believes that shallow imagistics can be beaten with substance. Which has worked out fabulously for every great actress who is 300 lbs. in Hollywood – all two of them who are working.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Let The Other Side Have Meaningless Victories. This is a parlor trick you can use to great effect with your leftist friends. Leftists prize faux moderation above all else; by granting them a point or two, you can convince them that you aren’t a radical right-winger at all.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“If you force a leftist to answer why we should all give up our nice cars while the Chinese and Russians continue to dump toxic waste into the atmosphere, they will avoid.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“If you force a leftist to answer whether they would force churches to perform same-sex marriages, they will avoid.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The questions they prefer to ask are about your character; the questions they prefer not to answer are all of them. Instead, they like to dodge issues in favor of those character arguments.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“On abortion, the left says it is for choice, but ignores that the baby has no choice.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The government hiring workers would require paying money for doctors – and the left argues that doctors already make too much money. And the left won’t argue openly for what they would prefer: forcing people to practice medicine for patients deemed worthy by the government”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“the left suggests that their entire goal is to make healthcare available to everyone. But they don’t mandate that a certain percentage of the population go to medical school. That’s because in order for government to guarantee a product’s availability, the government must either hire workers or force workers to get into a given industry.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“As a general matter, the left’s favorite three lines of attack are (1) you’re stupid; (2) you’re mean; (3) you’re corrupt.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“global warming, for example, the proper question is not whether man is causing global warming. The question is whether man can fix global warming”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Morgan would later slam down that copy of the Constitution and call it “your little book” – rejecting a universally-accepted framework for discussing gun control, and throwing it in the American people’s faces. Just over a year later, Piers was off the air.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“I would really like to hear your policy prescriptions for what we should do about guns because you say you respect the second amendment. You know, I brought this here for you so you can read it. It’s the Constitution,”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The question is why marriage should be redefined, and how same-sex marriage will strengthen the institution.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The question is not whether two people who love each other should be given state sanction – even the left recognizes that such a definition is too broad, given that it would include incestuous relationships.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“On same-sex marriage, the question is not how same-sex marriage hurts your marriage – that’s a nonsensical and stupid question, like asking how enslavement of others hurts you personally.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The left’s use of magical buzzwords places you in a corner, against supposed universal values that aren’t universal or universally held.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“They are tolerant, diverse, fighters for social justice; if you oppose them, by contrast, you are intolerant, xenophobic, and in favor of injustice. Now, all these terms are – to be polite – a crock, if considered as absolute moral values. The left is wildly intolerant of religious people and conservatives; that’s why they’re interested in forcing Christian bakers to cater to same-sex weddings. They are anti-intellectual diversity, particularly in areas of American life in which they predominate; that’s why they stifle conservatism on campus and in the media.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument