The 20 Best Quotes of 2023

All the best quotes from 2023                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Forwarded this email? [Subscribe here]() for more [The 20 Best Quotes of 2023]( All the best quotes from 2023 [John Hawkins]( Dec 29   [READ IN APP](   20) "We used to want love, now we just want likes. Posting up pathetic pictures. ‘This is me eating sushi. Like me!’" -- Chris Rock in the Selective Outrage comedy special on Netflix 19) "If a solar storm did knock out the Internet for two years, most of the trans movement would be over in six months." -- [Jeremy Borering]( 18) "30 years ago, there was no Internet, and everything functioned fine. If it vanished today it would cause a global meltdown. We talk about the existential risk of new technologies, but it may be the sudden loss of one that does us in. The more magical the world, the more fragile." -- [Tim Urban]( 17) "You’re not supposed to be fighting dragons that aren’t in your way." -- [Jordan Peterson]( 16) "The View is a show about current events, hosted by several celebrities who don’t know much about current events, and who adamantly refuse to learn anything new about current events." -- [Jim Geraghty]( 15) "If you're 18 and think you're the opposite sex, you have a mental illness. If you're 8 and think you're the opposite sex, your mother has a mental illness." -- [Charlie Kirk]( 14) "I want every married woman to understand something: 99% of the time you will have 99 dudes desperate to bang you for every one man willing to put up with you afterwards. Monogamy benefits you, first and foremost. Choose wisely." -- [Rian Stone]( 13) "Shame is a civilizing force. We delegitimize it at our peril." -- [Bret Weinstein]( 12) "They say evil prevails when good men do nothing. That’s true. It’s also true that madness prevails when sane men say nothing." -- [Seth Dillon]( 11) "Hating your country is like hating your parents and still living in their home. Move out and be happy somewhere else." -- [Ryan Fournier]( 10) "Marriage is the only legally binding contract where if women break it, they’re rewarded." -- [Gina Macool]( 9) "Gender dysphoria remains the only mental health condition I’m aware of, in which the proposed treatment is to affirm the distressing thoughts inside one’s head and physically modify one’s body." -- [James Esses]( 8) "Joe Rogan gets 20x to 40x the listeners of primetime CNN, but people still pretend like CNN is the mainstream." -- [Kanekoa The Great]( 7) "The weird thing about diversity hires is they get so pissy when you point out they were diversity hires. I thought hiring on the basis of diversity was good, but apparently, you’re not to point out that they were not hired on because of merit. It’s almost like it’s all a bunch of nonsense." -- [Kurt Schlichter]( 6) "The reason facts don’t change most people’s opinions is because most people don’t use facts to form their opinions. They use their opinions to form their ‘facts.’" -- [Neil Strauss]( 5) "If someone is going to try to blackmail me with advertising… Go f*** yourself. Go f*** yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is." -- [Elon Musk]( on advertisers demanding he curtail freedom of speech. 4) "The USA is following a familiar historical path. We have an over-extended military empire that we cannot afford, and we are gradually devaluating our currency. The ending is already known, only the timing remains to be discovered." -- [Wall Street Silver]( 3) "If you want to know how dumb the West has become, people have been arguing about how many genders there are, and if it's FAIR to allow males to compete against females in competitive sports... For 8 YEARS! No wonder no real progress is being made on anything important." -- [Zuby]( 2) "Tolerance, not coercion, is our nation’s answer.  The First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands." -- [Justice Gorsuch]( majority opinion, 303 Creative v. Elenis 1) "What I see all over the place is people who care about looking good, while doing evil. F*** them." -- [Elon Musk]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Upgrade to paid]( [Share]( [Leave a comment]( [101 Things All Young Adults Should Know]( You're currently a free subscriber to [Culturcidal by John Hawkins](. For the full experience, [upgrade your subscription.]( [Upgrade to paid](   [Like]( [Comment]( [Restack](   © 2023 John Hawkins 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 [Unsubscribe]() [Get the app]( writing]()