Top 345 Quotes & Sayings by Dennis Prager - Page 6

The Left needs causes like fish need water

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?

If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. We have to believe that we do better than them. We measure morality by what happens not what is intended.

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

It does say something about a society when those who sue physicians and hospitals make as much or more money than those who heal disease. It says something about a society when it glorifies and rewards those who litigate while it demonizes and punishes those who produce the drugs and devices that keep it citizens alive and well.

The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant bombs at a nightclub in Bali, or slit stewardesses' throats and ram airplanes filled with innocent Americans into office buildings do not do so for any reason related to poverty. They do so because they hold evil beliefs and have deformed consciences

I believe that free money is as addictive as cocaine

Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

The Left will destroy what is good to try to make what is perfect. That is the motto of the Left

The Left corrupts everything it touches

You owe others a happy disposition

The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have an how early they can retire and be supported by the state.

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?

Utopian movements produce dystopias.

If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course, the economy of the United States will deteriorate, perhaps permanently.

Liberals don't ask 'Does it work?' They ask 'Does it equalize?'

Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being the President of the United States; she has done nothing important that is good

Hillary Clinton wanted to hide what she was doing so that there was no trail

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

Grateful people are good people, and good people are happy people

The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk

There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.

I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled

If pain were water, the world would drown

America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on.

It is essential that Christians understand this. Every Jew, secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing, fears being killed because he is Jewish. This is the best-kept secret about Jews, who are widely perceived as inordinately secure and powerful. But it is the only universally held sentiment among Jews.

The United States of America is a flawed society. As it comprises human beings, it must be flawed. But in terms of the goodness achieved inside its borders and spread elsewhere in the world, it has been the finest country that ever existed. If you were to measure the moral gulf between America and those who despise it, the divide would have to be calculated in light-years.

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

You're 'wealthy' if you don't worry

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

Leftist big-government policies have been disastrous for black America just as they were in the countries that most Hispanics emigrated from. But like the gambling addict who keeps gambling the more he loses, those addicted to government entitlements keep increasing the size of the government even as their situation worsens.

Nothing provides the antidote to narcissism, or the environment for the healthy raising of children, or the way for people to take care of one another, as does the marriage of a man and a woman. And while most divorces are terribly sad, divorce itself no more undermines the institution of marriage than car crashes undermine the institution of driving.

Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.

I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -

When America doesn't act, bad things happen

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.