Greg Gutfeld Quotes

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

I would like to share with you my plan to destroy America…. I would invest in ethnic identity and victimology. I would get them to think that their lack of success was only the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry.

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.

I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.

For traditional societies … the collective, the group, is more important than the individual, and empowering the individual is equated with dividing the society.

In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse.

I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.

Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.

The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.