Top 345 Quotes & Sayings by Dennis Prager - Page 4

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has rendered vast numbers of male unnecessary to females, who have looked to the state to support them and their children (and the more children, the more state support) rather than to husbands. In effect, these women took the state as their husband.

The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

If the United States doesn't lead then evil triumphs

There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.

Just because you cannot fight every evil does not mean you should fight no evils.

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.

To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents.

I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.

Most evil comes from the belief that one is a victim, or one's group is a victim

Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?

Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done.

Many liberals believe in God; many conservatives do. What matters is not whether people believe in God but what text, if any, they believe to be divine. Those who believe that He has spoken through a given text will generally think differently from those who believe that no text is divine. Such people will usually get their values from other texts, or more likely from their conscience and heart.

The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war

Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).

Humility is a fantastic trait and is one of the most important things we can have

The entire European Union is a left-wing dream

Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness

Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child.

The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

It is a world of lies that permeates the Left

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

The Libertarian Party is a shameful party

A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see composition and lighting and do not see their civilization being pissed upon, we are in trouble.

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent

When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

Liberalism means well, but it destroys

The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke.

Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.

The Obama administration will never say 'radical Islam.' Never.

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

Happiness is a moral obligation

Some of us worry about a resurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization; some of us worry about global warming. In twenty years' time, one of us will be proved right . . .

The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.

I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, “You allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience?

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head.

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

The worldview of the Left is a battle between rich and poor

The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

Those who don't fight evil hate those who do; and those who don't fight real evils make up little evils

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.

The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that