Dennis Prager Quotes (26 Quotes)


    Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

    Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

    All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

    Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

    Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.



    More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

    One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

    If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

    There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

    All those who support the American war in Iraq should make a deal with anyone opposed to the war. Offer to answer any 20 questions the opponents wish to ask if they will answer just one Do you believe we are fighting evil people in Iraq.

    I have been with many men approaching death and not one has ever said, I only regret that I didn't spend more time at the office.

    Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2 of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

    Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

    The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

    How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

    When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.

    There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

    In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and experts have affirmed it. Studies show is to the modern secular college graduate what Scripture says is to the religious fundamentalist.

    Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

    Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

    My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them.

    Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

    Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

    Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

    The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.


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