Don’t Burn This Book Quotes

“The left’s obsession with identity politics is the reverse of the melting-pot principle that America was founded upon: a place where everyone, regardless of race, religion, and color, is welcome as long as they blend into the fabric of our (free) society.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“That being said, it’s still not racist to observe that half of the homicides in America are committed by and against African Americans.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“That’s not to say America doesn’t have issues with prejudice and discrimination. Do white supremacists exist? Yes. Do black, Jew, and Hispanic haters exist? Yes. But are these people fringe and irrelevant? Hell yeah. They have no institutional power. And that’s exactly how it should be.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“progressives see racism, sexism, and discrimination everywhere, except where it actually exists.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“Play the victim card to attain power, then, once you have it, use it to shield yourself from legitimate criticism.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“This is a prime example of the left’s soft bigotry of low expectations.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“This article also flirted with libel by claiming I was “far right” (read: shorthand for Nazi) because I had the temerity to interview people with different views. Truly hateful, I know.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“Fortunately, this all happened in the alternative reality of Twitter, where such things are posted by anonymous accounts with anime avatars.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“Instead of focusing on what we can have for “free,” or on who we can take from to fund trendy, idealistic projects like the Green New Deal, let’s focus on keeping what we earn and cutting spending wherever possible.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you’ve earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“The trans issue is particularly interesting because it directly affects such an infinitesimally small fraction of the population. While that group of people is worthy of equality and protection, ask yourself why this topic is being relentlessly pushed so hard.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“The only way we can eradicate human behavior is to eradicate humans, and that strikes me as pretty extreme.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“You’re not gonna believe this, but generally speaking, good guys follow rules while bad guys don’t.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“This is because self-reliance is one of the things authoritarians try to take away first.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“Let’s secure the border, figure out who is here illegally, and offer them a pathway to citizenship. Likewise, let’s take in new immigrants in numbers that will help our economy, rather than make them reliant on the citizens who are already here.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants into this country.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“each country has a primary duty to care for its existing population, including the millions of legal immigrants who’ve already moved there to build a new life and are now part of the community.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“anybody who tried to sound the alarm was branded a far-right, racist xenophobe”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“I would rather be defined by what I support than what I oppose.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“Progressivism has traded a love of individual rights for paternalistic, insincere concern for the collective. It judges people based upon their skin color, gender, and sexuality, thus imagining them as competitors in an Oppression Olympics in which victimhood is virtue.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“But instead of contributing to the conversation like a grown-up, he basically shouted Harris and Maher down and called them racists, which has now become a standard debating tactic for most progressives.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“To them, he was just an inconvenient black dude who needed to be taken out.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“It’s not too hard to imagine the progressives of 2040 demanding that the Obama Presidential Library be taken down due to his obvious homophobia, is it?”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“delicious Chipotle burrito right now (with double chicken).”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“Do white supremacists exist? Yes. Do black, Jew, and Hispanic haters exist? Yes. But are these people fringe and irrelevant? Hell yeah. They have no institutional power. And that’s exactly how it should be.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“sociology professor Jessie Daniels from New York’s City University claimed that “the white nuclear family is one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“Saying that a family is better off with a father shouldn’t be controversial and it certainly isn’t racist.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“Deep down, I knew the importance of an intact family. I think we all do.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

“This isn’t to say there aren’t successful single parents out there, but let’s face it: nothing trumps the nuclear family when it comes to offering the best possible starting point in life. This is a time-tested theory that has manifested itself in every part of the world throughout the ages.”
― Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason