Dinesh D'Souza Quotes

Dinesh Joseph D'Souza is an Indian American conservative political commentator, author and filmmaker. From 2010 to 2012, he was president of The King's College, a Christian school in New York City.

Born in Bombay, D'Souza came to the United States as an exchange student and graduated from Dartmouth College. He became a naturalized citizen in 1991. He is the author of several New York Times best-selling books, including titles on Christian apologetics. D'Souza has been critical of New Atheism. In 2012, D'Souza released his film 2016: Obama's America, an anti-Obama polemic based on D'Souza's 2010 book The Roots of Obama's Rage; the film is the highest-grossing conservative documentary film produced in the United States.

On May 20, 2014, D'Souza pleaded guilty in federal court to one charge of using a "straw donor" to make an illegal campaign contribution to a 2012 United States Senate campaign, a felony. On September 23, he was sentenced to eight months in a halfway house near his home in San Diego, five years probation, and a $30,000 fine.

In 2016, D'Souza released a documentary film and book, both entitled Hillary's America, in which he offers his version of the history of the Democratic Party. The film was the highest-grossing documentary film of 2016. D'Souza's films have been the subject of considerable controversy, including criticism for espousing conspiracy theories and other unsubstantiated representations of fact.

✵ 25. April 1961   •   Other names दिनेश डिसूज़ा, ディネシュ・ドゥスーザ, دينيش دسوزا
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“Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed – only when it is chosen.”

The Washington Post, , quoted in * 2003-07-08 Cal Thomas Theological dictators Townhall.com 2019-09-06 https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2003/07/08/theological-dictators-n752580

“Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.”

Source: Books, What's So Great about Christianity (2007), Ch. 3
Source: What's So Great About Christianity
Context: 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.

Dinesh D'Souza Quotes about the world

“Imagine the unimaginable… What would the world look like if America did not exist?”

Documentary films, America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)

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“I feel a bit like the mosquito at the nudist colony—I'm just not sure where to begin!”

"Does God Exist?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fzde_QN4fE&feature=youtu.be&t=19m40s — Dinesh D'Souza and Dan Barker debate at Prestonwood Christian Academy, Plano, TX (November 19, 2009)
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Context: Dan has raised so many points... I feel a bit like the mosquito at the nudist colony—I'm just not sure where to begin!

“This is our turn at the wheel, and history will judge us based on how we handle it. Decline is a choice, but so is liberty.”

Source: Books, America: Imagine a World without Her (2014), Ch. 16

“America is the most magnanimous of all imperial powers that have ever existed.”

"What's So Great about America" http://www.hoover.org/research/whats-so-great-about-america, Hoover Digest (30 July 2002).

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“Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.”

Article http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1121/p09s01-coop.html for The Christian Science Monitor (21 November 2006).

“Americans are the friendliest people you will encounter, but they have few friends.”

Source: Books, What's So Great About America (2003), Ch. 1: Why They Hate Us

“If racism is not the main problem for blacks, what is? Liberal antiracism.”

Source: Books, The End of Racism (1995), Ch. 1

“Capitalism works not through coercion or conquest, but through the consent of the consumer.”

Documentary films, America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)

“America, the freest nation on Earth, is also the most virtuous nation on Earth. This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice and immorality in America. Some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens. Virtue, these fundamentalists argue, is a higher principle than liberty. Indeed it is. And let us admit that in a free society, freedom will frequently be used badly. Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to do good or evil, to act nobly or basely. But if freedom brings out the worst in people, it also brings out the best. The millions of Americans who live decent, praiseworthy lives desire our highest admiration because they have opted for the good when the good is not the only available option. Even amid the temptations of a rich and free society, they have remained on the straight path. Their virtue has special luster because it is freely chosen. By contrast, the societies that many Islamic fundamentalists seek would eliminate the possibility of virtue. 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. Consider the woman who is required to wear a veil. There is no modesty in this, because she is being compelled. Compulsion cannot produce virtue, it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue. Thus a free society like America's is not merely more prosperous, more varied, more peaceful, and more tolerant; it is also morally superior to the theocratic and authoritarian regimes that America's enemies advocate.”

Articles, 10 Things to Celebrate: Why I'm an Anti-Anti-American (June 2003)

“If the televangelists are guilty of producing some simple-minded, self-righteous Christians, then the atheist authors are guilty of producing self-congratulatory buffoons like Condell.”

"Why Is This Atheist So Smug?" http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/09/26/why-is-this-atheist-so-smug/62, AOL News.

“It is the anti-colonial ideology of his African father that Barack Obama took to heart.”

Source: Books, The Roots of Obama's Rage (2010), Ch. 2: The Black Man's Burden

“Scaring the children: for Halloween last night, I dressed as a Democrat and when kids came to my door, I took half of their candy!”

Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/DSouzaDinesh/photos/a.279556495404346.96395.216709768355686/985875871439068/ (1 November 2014).

“My podium is a little narrow, but I guess that's okay since I remembered to wear pants.”

"What's So Great About God?: Atheism vs Religion" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJvoFbA0qcs&feature=youtu.be&t=12m33s — Dinesh D'Souza and Christopher Hitchens debate at Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder (26 January 2009)
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“The American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well.”

Source: Books, The End of Racism (1995), Ch. 3

“Consistent with Martin Luther King's vision, the government should stop color-coding its citizens.”

"As I See It", in Forbes Vol. 158, no. 13 (2 December 1996), p. 48.

“Here's the formula for Obama's success: "They work, and you eat."”

Source: Books, America: Imagine a World without Her (2014), Ch. 14

“The American Indians sold Manhattan to the Dutch for $700 in today's money. My point is, that's what Manhattan was worth then. It was useless, it was just a piece of land, like any other piece of land which you can buy today for $700 in many places in the world. Manhattan today is the result of the people who built it, not the original inhabitants who occupied or sold it.”

Dinesh D'Souza Takes On The Case For Reparations: 'The Innovation Of America Is The Result Of Capitalism' http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/18/dinesh-dsouza-takes-on-the-case-for-reparations-the-innovation-of-america-is-the-result-of-capitalism/, The Daily Caller (June 18, 2014).

“Black rage is largely a response not to white racism but to black failure.”

Source: Books, The End of Racism (1995), Ch. 8

“The Obama administration tried to shut me up.”

Documentary films, Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)

“One way to be effective as a conservative is to figure out what annoys and disturbs liberals the most, and then keep doing it.”

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“As an immigrant, I am constantly surprised by how much I hear racism talked about and how little I actually see it.”

Even fewer are the incidents in which I have experienced it directly.
Source: Books, What's So Great About America (2003), Ch. 4: The Reparations Fallacy

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