Dinesh D'Souza famous quotes

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Christian #Islamic #Tolerance

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Country #4th Of July #Unique

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of a Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic? Who can dispute that they did their bloody deeds by claiming to be establishing a "new man" and a religion-free utopia? These were mass murders performed with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Atheist #Inspiration #Men

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Slavery #Wonder

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Lying #White #People

The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Suicide #Dream #America

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Country #Moving #People

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Christian #Taken #Giving

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Strong #Lying #People

Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Entrepreneur #Benefits #Consideration

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Country #Patriotic #America

Christ remains the most influential figure in history. Any list of world-transforming individuals would no doubt include Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad. Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad, however occupy totally different places in Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam than Christ occupies in Christianity. Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad never professed to perform miracles; indeed they never claimed to be anything more than men. They viewed themselves simply as God's messengers. Christ is the only person in history who has defined a whole religion around his person.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Jesus #Buddhism #Men

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Bridges #Voice #Soul

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Credentials #Sociologists #Bigots

The issue of religious liberty is absolutely critical. America was founded on three different types of liberty: political liberty, economic liberty, and religious and civil liberty. It's remarkable that, one-by-one, these strands of liberty are coming under fierce attack from the Left. And that's particularly ironic because "liberal" derives from a word which means "liberty," the free man as opposed to the slave. This liberalism which we're saddled with today isn't a real liberalism at all, but a gangster style of politics masquerading as liberalism.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Religious #Real #Mean

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Philosophy #Real #Evil

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Real #Atheism #Murder

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Slavery #Moral #Ends

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Ideas #Get Better #Progress

Do you believe in the existence of Socrates? Alexander the Great? Julius Caesar? If historicity is established by written records in multiple copies that date originally from near contemporaneous sources, there is far more proof for Christ's existence than for any of theirs.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Jesus #Believe #Records

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#America #Evil #Empires

In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and crimes and oppressions visited upon the innocent, the poor, the defenseless, the minorities, and so on. This created a new narrative in America. Let's call it, "America the inexcusable." And this narrative has been drummed into the minds of our young people. A whole generation of Americans has been taught that theirs is a bad country. And it's then very difficult for them to figure out how one can one be a good citizen in a bad country.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Country #War #People

Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Today #West #Bears

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Selfish #Human Nature #Critics

Death is the great wrecking ball that destroys everything. Everything that we have done, everything that we are doing now, and all our plans for the future are completely and irrevocably destroyed when we die. Only teenagers live in that state of temporary insanity when they believe themselves immune from death.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Teenager #Believe #Temporary Insanity

Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Jobs #Rome #Leader

While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Goal #Entrepreneur #Finals

Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived from religion should not be permitted to shape our laws. Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression. Secularists want to empty the public square of religion and religious-based morality so they can monopolize the shared space of society with their own views. In the process they have made religious believers into second-class citizens.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Religious #Mean #Space

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Religious #Expression #Freedom Of Speech

In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Country #War #Reality

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Government #Elements #Coercion

What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Opinion #Sin #Conquest

We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a, sort of, morality tale. What the progressives do is, they take a few nuggets of American history, Columbus' arrival, then the founder's compromise with slavery, and what they do is they fast forward to their favorite episode, so to speak, and they create a story out of that leaving a whole bunch of facts out.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Country #Leaving #Slavery

There's one America that Barack Obama wants, and there's a very different America that I want. I want an America that is entrepreneurial, that has a strong private sector in which religious faith is respected and even nourished, in which there's vigorous debate across the spectrum, and in which our universities teach real history instead of propaganda. Certainly the decline of America is a choice, though the outcome is not foreordained. But liberty is also a choice, and I'm doing my best to persuade the people of America to make the latter choice.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Religious #Strong #Real

America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Self #America #Improvement

Barack Obama's policies can be summarized as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad. So, the federal government is expanding its powers at home over the private sector and over the lives of ordinary citizens. Abroad, Obama's working to undermine America's influence and power. If someone is trying to shrink America's influence, it doesn't necessarily mean you have to do it by doing nothing. You can also be vigorous like Obama who has been very active to achieve what has really been his consistent objective.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Mean #Home #Trying

Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years under slavery. America took half of Mexico by force in the Mexican War. American foreign policy, the progressives say it's based on theft. Why? Because look, America is very active in the Middle East. Why? The Middle East has oil. Notice that America doesn't get involved in Haiti or Rwanda because they don't have any oil.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Country #War #Mexican

Look at Satan's reason for rebelling against God. It's not that he doesn't recognize that God is greater than he is. He does. It's just that he doesn't want to play by anybody else's rules. This idea that it is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven is Satan's motto, and it turns out that this is also the motto of contemporary atheists such as Christopher Hitchens.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Atheist #Play #Ideas

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Drama #Play #Events

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Elephants #Rooms #Life After Death

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Wife #Accents

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Years #Criminals #Death Penalty

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Civilization #Roots #Foundation

Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Christian #Intellectual #Moral

There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Block #Real #Media

Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Two #Medical #Birth

In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abortions. At times it will require political education and legal fights, at times it will require education and the establishment of alternatives to abortion, such as adoption centers. Unfortunately, such measures are sometimes opposed by so-called hard-liners in the pro-life movement. These hard-liners are fools. Because they want to outlaw all abortions, they refuse to settle for stopping some abortions; the consequence is that they end up preventing no abortions.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Fighting #Views #Numbers

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Atheist #Names #Atrocities

The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Meaningful #Profound #Doe

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Christianity #Reason

Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Finals #Life Is #Judgment

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#War #America #Would Be

Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Exercise #Order #Liberty

The people who have wealth and the people who earn money are going to be a little reluctant to part with it, particularly if they earned it fair and square. So, what has to happen is that there has to be a drumming in of a critique that causes shame, a sense of look, my country and even I am in possession of stolen goods you might say and therefore, the government becomes the instrument to get some of those back.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Country #People #Wealth

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Kings #Rights #Roots

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Powerful #Emotional #Ideas

I do believe that the Barack Obama administration has reached a new low by using the instruments of the state against its political adversaries. Obama does not see people who disagree with him as well-meaning opponents but rather as enemies. That's not something that Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton did as President. Probably Obama's direct descendant in this line is Richard Nixon. And Obama seems to have carried Nixonian tactics to a new low. So, we've turned a corner in American politics that doesn't bode well for our future.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Believe #People #Political

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#America #Attractive #Planets

What I say is it's not that Obama hates America. It's not that he's a traitor, that he's a secret Muslim, that he's a Manchurian Candidate. He simply subscribes to an ideology that thinks it would be good for America to have a diminished economy and a diminished role in the world. In other words, Obama is all about what he perceives as global justice.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Hate #Thinking #America

I'm an immigrant to the U.S., and I've constantly been thinking about America both from the inside and from the outside. And I've come to believe that we're living at a critical time when the American Dream is in jeopardy and this American Era which began after World War II might be winding down.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Dream #War #Believe

I do think American culture has shifted a little bit away from the contemplative more toward the visual, more toward the emotional, and more toward the expressive. I don't think there's a lot that can be done about that. We just have to understand that it's the product of technology and of the way people live now.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Technology #Emotional #Thinking

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#White #House #Want

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Thinking #Virginia #Religion

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Father #Believe #Action

I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Running #Giving #Want

Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Brother #New York #Ideas

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#President #Generations #American History

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Barack Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Want #Rich #Break

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Islamic #America #Virtue

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Hurt #Friendly #Want

The capitalist has this over the politician and the clergyman; he has in practice done more to raise the standard of living of the poor than all the government and church programs in history....Monsanto and the Archer Daniels Midland Company have fed more hungry people than all the...soup kitchens combined.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Archer #Soup Kitchens #Government

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Roots #Issues #Arguing

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Years #Names #Catholic

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Iraq #Effort #Democracy

For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Winning #Victory #Traditional

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Hands #Invisible Hand #Competition

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#Father #Identity #Ideology

For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.
-- Dinesh D'Souza

#People #Intellectual #Benefits