Glenn Beck Quotes & Sayings

If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy. — Glenn Beck

I say on the air all time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot." — Glenn Beck

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance. — Glenn Beck

To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires. — Glenn Beck

America's religion. This is it gang, this is all you need to know. There is a God, He's going to judge us, we should be good to each other, cause daddy's gonna be pissed in the end if we're not. That's it. That's called a big principle. — Glenn Beck

We have only one life. We may waste it, or we may use it to learn of God and what God wants for us. And we all make mistakes. Only one life. — Glenn Beck

Always remember where we come from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine. — Glenn Beck

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it. — Glenn Beck

What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly. — Glenn Beck

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me? — Glenn Beck

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. — Glenn Beck

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America. — Glenn Beck

That's what the tactics are, Nazi tactics. Nazi tactics are progressive tactics first. — Glenn Beck

Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all. — Glenn Beck

You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored. — Glenn Beck

(Economist Robert Higgs wrote a book about this phenomenon titled Crisis and Leviathan, in which he argues that government intervention inevitably creates future problems, which results in the government's intervening even more in an attempt to correct them.) — Glenn Beck

We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together. — Glenn Beck

Whoa ... don't go all Kramer on me! — Glenn Beck

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth. — Glenn Beck

Lou Kitchenmaster, a retired teacher from Michigan, wrote an editorial in 2012 that puts the progressive position in perfect perspective: None of us would expect our major auto makers to build a high-quality product given damaged or defective materials; however, too many unfairly expect our public schools to accomplish such, regardless of the inherent condition of the "product" they receive. So he considers poor kids to be "damaged or defective materials — Glenn Beck

If you catch them in an early lie, they learn their lesson and so they don't continue to do it. But if you don't call them on early lies, they only get worse, bigger, and more dangerous. — Glenn Beck

Actually translates to "peace," because in Arabic it is based on the same root word, salam. That word, salam, can be found in the traditional greeting assalamualaikum ("Peace be upon you"). But as — Glenn Beck

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable? — Glenn Beck

The Second Amendment, like all of our rights, is reliant on a moral and virtuous people. Without that, nothing else matters. Man can not rule himself if ... moral sentiment is missing. — Glenn Beck

Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn't all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf. — Glenn Beck

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. — Glenn Beck

I want you [Sarah Palin] to know you have my support. But please look into protection for your family. An attempt on you could bring the republic down. — Glenn Beck

When I was young, I used to hear people say, 'He's a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he's going to be like when he grows up?' Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn't even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio. — Glenn Beck

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness. — Glenn Beck

We all have our inner demons. — Glenn Beck

We have a president who apparently loves instability and revolution, and that is the antithesis of those two words, Social Security. — Glenn Beck

Men may make progress, but man never changes. Man loves power and money. No matter the skin color, religion or income level. These symbols of our nation make men drunk with power, who then justify their lust for more by claiming they are public servants. — Glenn Beck

There are a lot of universities that are as dangerous with the indoctrination of the children as terrorists are in Iran or North Korea. We have been setting up reeducation camps. We call them universities. — Glenn Beck

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed. — Glenn Beck

With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, "Let's cut and run." And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way. — Glenn Beck

Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it. — Glenn Beck

Virtually everything we told you about the healthcare bill now has proven to be true, and nearly everything they told you was a lie. — Glenn Beck

Imagine our kids begging and pleading, throwing tantrums to get you to buy more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Yes, this is possible. It is possible to create this world! And that's what all of this is really about: creating a world that meets the approval of the Obamas and other controllists. — Glenn Beck

I believe that Thomas Jefferson said: 'If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?' — Glenn Beck

The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934. — Glenn Beck

My father told me abuse is generational. — Glenn Beck

Fall to your knees and thank God for Fox News. Pray for Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. Pray for them. Pray for strength and spine, and pray that everybody involved has chicken salad for lunch so it doesn't clog anybody's arteries. Keep them going. — Glenn Beck

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was. — Glenn Beck

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order. — Glenn Beck

You've been getting it. Big fat doses of the truth. it's ugly, isn't it?
Sometimes.
And you still want it?
Always ... I'm not afraid. Besides, God is my shield. You don't have to be. — Glenn Beck

The government," he told me one night, "is there to act as a safety net, not a candy machine. — Glenn Beck

What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights. — Glenn Beck

For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me ... remember, you've broken three [of the 10 Commandments], let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill. — Glenn Beck

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it. — Glenn Beck

Has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company. — Glenn Beck

What have you done with your knowledge and priesthood power that those without have not done this week? If you cannot answer that with power every day, what does that say about you? — Glenn Beck

Never forget who you are; a daughter of a Heavenly Father. You have royal heritage, and anyone who makes you feel like less that is not a man,husband,father, or friend,simply someone who is afraid of you because he knows who you are, but doesn't know who he is. — Glenn Beck

On this great plan, or Constitution the safety and happiness of the United States does, under Almighty God, mainly depend: all our laws are made by its direction or authority; whoever goes contrary to it injures and betrays his country, injures you, injures me, betrays us all, and is deserving of the heaviest punishment. — Glenn Beck

Because it's perfect. Happy and new. Filled with possibility ... Everyone needed a little reminder of something whole and full of promise. Everyone needed a bit of paradise. — Glenn Beck

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty. — Glenn Beck

I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit. — Glenn Beck

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that. — Glenn Beck

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself. — Glenn Beck

I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse. — Glenn Beck

Ponzi had been in Brazil, and then Argentina, where he bought a boardinghouse populated by prostitutes, along with a hot dog stand. He had hoped it would be the start of a national chain. — Glenn Beck

We allow poor teachers to hang around and plague our schools until they choose to retire. That — Glenn Beck

What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right. — Glenn Beck

A June 2015 poll of Muslims living in the United States by the Center for Security Policy showed that a shocking number (51 percent) seek to embrace sharia over the U.S. Constitution. In addition, nearly one in four of Muslims polled believed that "it is legitimate to use violence to punish those who give offense to Islam by, for example, portraying the prophet Mohammed." One in five respondents agreed that "the use of violence is justified in order to make shariah the law of the land in this country" while only 39 percent believed that Muslims in the U.S. should be subjected to American courts. If, as the Pew Research Center estimates, there are approximately 3 million Muslims in America, that translates to roughly half a million U.S. Muslims who believe acts of terror and murder are legitimate tools in order to replace the U.S. Constitution with sharia law. — Glenn Beck

Apple might not love me, but I love Apple. — Glenn Beck

It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America. — Glenn Beck

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government. — Glenn Beck

The people who talk most about the need to regulate guns are also usually the same people who know the least about them. Ask these gun prohibitionists about the Second Amendment and they'll usually mention hunting or sport shooting. — Glenn Beck

I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism. — Glenn Beck

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives. — Glenn Beck

Of course, figuring out what actually works in reducing childhood obesity is not really the point of these programs. (If it were, then the government might finally stop categorizing french fries as "vegetables.") The real point is the same thing it always is: conformity, control, and eventually fundamental transformation. — Glenn Beck

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25. — Glenn Beck

What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy? — Glenn Beck

The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen. — Glenn Beck

The only difference between Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. is that at least Vegas has the decency to admit the town is full of hookers and crooks. — Glenn Beck

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards. — Glenn Beck

I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much. — Glenn Beck

The Nazis learned their propaganda from the progressive movement in the United States. — Glenn Beck

Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else. — Glenn Beck

There's a difference between suspecting a thing and finally knowing it for certain. — Glenn Beck

We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and math. Only 13 percent of high school seniors know what high school seniors should know about American history. — Glenn Beck

I wondered when exactly I had exchanged my conscience for fearful obedience. — Glenn Beck

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free. — Glenn Beck

If we are really going to debate how criminals might access, modify, convert or adapt guns to fit their needs, then we can put all of the other arguments behind us right now, because none of them make a difference. That said, it's pretty telling just how weak your argument is when you have to resort to a 'yeah, but criminals might ... ' stance to make your point. — Glenn Beck

We have an issue with kids' having unfettered access to the worst the Internet has to offer instead of the best that our communities can provide. — Glenn Beck

Progressives wrote the Common Core standards, used money from the 2009 stimulus bill to bribe states into adopting them, and are now "vetting" the tests that will eventually shape the curriculum used by school districts all across the United States. — Glenn Beck

Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron. — Glenn Beck

I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble. — Glenn Beck

America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that. — Glenn Beck

In the Westerville, Ohio, school district, for example, a union contract provision stipulated that a coin flip would be used to determine seniority if two teachers were hired on the same day. One might be a great teacher, the other awful; it makes no difference. That is how much importance unions place on teacher quality. — Glenn Beck

We need a Jesus or a Buddha or.. — Glenn Beck

Roy G. Biv to remember the colors and she made up a rhyme: A rainbow is named Roy G. Biv To remember the colors and the joy they give. — Glenn Beck

This president (Barack Obama) I think has exposed himself over and over and over again as a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture ... I'm not saying he doesn't like white people, I'm saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist. — Glenn Beck

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me. — Glenn Beck

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America. — Glenn Beck

I am like Howard Beale. When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy. — Glenn Beck

I think it's about time we legalize marijuana ... We either put people who are smoking marijuana behind bars or we legalize it, but this little game we are playing in the middle is not helping us, it is not helping Mexico and it is causing massive violence on our southern border ... Fifty percent of the money going to these cartels is coming just from marijuana coming across our border. — Glenn Beck

I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it. — Glenn Beck

The typical mentality among the leadership of "less work for more money" is far too prevalent. Outstanding efforts by individual employees are frowned upon, because they give "management" a reason to expect better results without an increase in compensation. — Glenn Beck

If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver. — Glenn Beck

You tell me why the government needs this information on every Verizon customer but they don't need to know who's coming across our border? They don't need to know where the 15,000 foreign nationals are that skipped out on their visa, just didn't show up to school but they're here in the United States. You tell me why they need my grandmother's phone records but they don't need to know where the Saudi nationals are. Why they don't need - why they need to know who's calling who inside the United States of America. They need to know who's calling who, how long the phone conversations were lasting, the GPS locators for all of the cellphones, when those phones, when that phone call was made. Why do they need all of that for domestic terror but they can't seem to get it right with the Boston bombers? They don't know where that guy was. You tell me why they need all of this information. Why do you need to go for the AP? You don't need to go for the AP and target the reporters. — Glenn Beck