Gad Saad Quotes

We don't want people to be afraid of saying something interesting on the off chance it's taken the wrong way.

My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

Some must speak and some must be still so that we can listen to the voices of the just and the silence of the sinners.

We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say.

Think about it: If you were publicly branded a racist on an issue of public debate, might you not next time hesitate to speak out, write your elected representatives or go to a meeting? That's a chilling effect - and undermines the First Amendment.

Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans.

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

Everyone has freedom to say whatever they want to say. I think it takes a stronger person to hold their tongue as opposed to speaking out.

Where's the upside in opening your mouth?

People call me for interviews on censorship type topics all the time, like that Gannette interview.I don't hold myself out to be an authority on it, but the reason they call me is that they know that I'll at least open my mouth, and give an opinion, whereas other people will play it safe, and won't say anything, because they don't want to offend anybody.

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.

You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.

Everyone only hears what he understands.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of different reasons. Because maybe it's politically incorrect, it doesn't have to really to be put in jail.

My sense of humor doesn't translate well into print, some of the things I say can be offensive or found offensive even though I don't mean them that way. So I have been told to try and censor myself here and there. I'm trying, but I'm not really succeeding at it.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.