Top 345 Quotes & Sayings by Dennis Prager - Page 5

Those of you who love the Lord should hate evil

Not everyone wants to be happy

The love of freedom is actually an aberration.

As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European countries rely on America to fight the world's evil, and even to defend them

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists

A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly

The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican'

There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe, by those who don't believe.

Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom

The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another. If the state will take care of me and my neighbors, why should I? This is why Western Europeans, people who have lived in welfare states far longer than Americans have, give less to charity and volunteer less time to others than do Americans of the same socioeconomic status.

The Left is totalitarian in its nature

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed?

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better

If you really do hate evil, you can't hate anything else

This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

The Left neither cares about prosperity nor jobs. It cares about equality

Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc

Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and growth. It did not become the richest, most populous, and most productive state solely because of its weather and natural resources. So it takes a lot to turn California around from growth to contraction, from people moving into the state to a net exodus from the state, from business moving into California to businesses leaving California. It takes some doing. And the Left has done it.

Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger

There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians

Enough generations of socialist policies have now passed for us to judge their effects. They are bleak. Socialism undermines the character of a nation and of its citizens. In simpler words, socialism makes people worse.

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Left-wing thinking is that difference means unequal; therefore, all difference must be denied

Life is too short not to enjoy as much of it as you can

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

It is a lie that America is racist

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

Just listen to Chris Matthews on any given day and you will see what's acceptable on the Left

There is no happiness that isn't earned

Big government squashes the human spirit

Does the unborn human fetus have at any point the right to live?

How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

Lies and victimhood make evil possible

Climate change is the mother of all hysterias of the Left

The next time your daughter asks, 'Where are all the men?' Tell them that the Democratic party and its policies got rid of them'

Secularism produces a bored soul

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life

President Obama has done more damage to America than any American has since 1776

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

The great are not famous, and the famous are not great

If you're morally clear you are not on the Left

I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. 'Give me more than half of your honestly earned money or you will be arrested' is legalized thievery.

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

It does not matter what position you take on the Left, you are safe and secure. But that is not at all the case for positions that the Right take on. You are not safe and secure, so you travel with bodyguards

American is deteriorating because it is becoming like other countries