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> [Despite the fact that human beings think that they have escaped the evolutionary paradigm, they've done nothing of the kind, and so we should expect the belief systems that people hold to mirror the evolutionary interests that people have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/despite-the-fact-that-human-beings-think-that-they-have-escaped-the/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

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## More by Bret Weinstein

> [On a college campus, people should be equally free to be on campus, irrespective of their skin color.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/on-a-college-campus-people-should-be-equally-free-to-be-on-campus/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [Evergreen is arguably the most radical college in the country - and while it does lean far to the left in a political sense,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/evergreen-is-arguably-the-most-radical-college-in-the-country-and/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [Day of Absence is a tradition at Evergreen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/day-of-absence-is-a-tradition-at-evergreen/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [There was a time when the term liberal had been so thoroughly demonized by those on the right that I remember consciously choosing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/there-was-a-time-when-the-term-liberal-had-been-so-thoroughly/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [The button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all the hard sciences, have lived side by side with 'critical theory,' postmodernism and its perception-based relatives.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/the-button-down-empirical-and-deductive-fields-including-all-the-hard/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [It is fair to say that the political duopoly we are forced to accept creates a set of problems that threaten the survival of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/it-is-fair-to-say-that-the-political-duopoly-we-are-forced-to-accept/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [Terrorism is a tactic in which the primary objective is to produce fear, rather than direct harm. Terrorist attacks are, first and foremost, psychological…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/terrorism-is-a-tactic-in-which-the-primary-objective-is-to-produce/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [If one's desire for change is an earnest desire to see things improve, then surely there is a state in which things have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/if-one-s-desire-for-change-is-an-earnest-desire-to-see-things-improve/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [What we do have is a system in which power tends to be awarded to people on the basis that they are corruptible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/what-we-do-have-is-a-system-in-which-power-tends-to-be-awarded-to/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [To women, Americans of color, and the citizens of the world, Donald Trump, if he is taken at his word, represents a threat to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/to-women-americans-of-color-and-the-citizens-of-the-world-donald/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [The idea that we should prioritize a racial viewpoint on, who knows, maybe even organic chemistry, over somebody who is adept at understanding how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/the-idea-that-we-should-prioritize-a-racial-viewpoint-on-who-knows/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [I hear many people talking as if the terms liberal, progressive and leftist refer to different factions, and that one might partner with one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/i-hear-many-people-talking-as-if-the-terms-liberal-progressive-and/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [For many reasons, the natural thing is for Americans to unify under some banner in order to regain power over the policymaking structure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/for-many-reasons-the-natural-thing-is-for-americans-to-unify-under/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [Conservatives tend to be very skeptical of change. When something could be improved, they often get in the way of those improvements because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/conservatives-tend-to-be-very-skeptical-of-change-when-something/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

> [Terrorists do not engage in terror attacks because they are strong. They engage in these attacks because they are weak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/terrorists-do-not-engage-in-terror-attacks-because-they-are-strong/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

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