Dennis Prager famous quotes

Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.
-- Dennis Prager

#Evil #Resent

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
-- Dennis Prager

#Honesty #Kindness #Integrity

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

#Religious #Atheist #People

Socialism values equality more than liberty.
-- Dennis Prager

#Equality #Eugenics #Liberty

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.
-- Dennis Prager

#Happiness #Ungrateful People #Adversity

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

#Government #Irs #Opponents

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.
-- Dennis Prager

#Perfect #People #Evil

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.
-- Dennis Prager

#Gratitude #Keys #Expectations

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

#Believe #Unconditional Love #Ideas

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

#Government #Liberty #Foundation

The Libertarian Party is a shameful party
-- Dennis Prager

#Party #Libertarian #Shameful

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

#Doe #Fetus #Unborn

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

#Mean #Thinking #Wings

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

#War #Europe #Civil War

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage
-- Dennis Prager

#Quality #Humans

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

#Joy

Those who don't hate evil hate those who do
-- Dennis Prager

#Hate #Evil

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

#World #Scum #Way

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

#Country #Teenager #Past

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

#Wings #Hysteria #Lifetime

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

#Support #Voting #Youth

Happiness is a moral obligation
-- Dennis Prager

#Moral #Obligation #Moral Obligation

First tell the truth, then give your opinion.
-- Dennis Prager

#Giving #Opinion #Telling The Truth

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
-- Dennis Prager

#Broken #World #Moral

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.
-- Dennis Prager

#Order #People #Becoming

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

#Differences #Evil #Useless

American is deteriorating because it is becoming like other countries
-- Dennis Prager

#Country #Becoming

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.
-- Dennis Prager

#Gratitude #Grateful #People

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
-- Dennis Prager

#Believe #I Believe #Murder

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?
-- Dennis Prager

#Character #Development #Vehicle

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
-- Dennis Prager

#Views #Economic Inequality #Evil

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate
-- Dennis Prager

#Maturity #Emotion

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

#Christian #Apology #Leader

The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful
-- Dennis Prager

#Grateful #Expectations #Be Grateful

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

#Powerful #Roots #Complaining

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives
-- Dennis Prager

#Atheist #Agnostic #Religious Life

Lies and victimhood make evil possible
-- Dennis Prager

#Lying #Evil #Victimhood

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

#Children #Evil #Parent

The Left is totalitarian in its nature
-- Dennis Prager

Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion
-- Dennis Prager

#Intellectual #Emotion #Veneer

Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages
-- Dennis Prager

#Art #Soul #Damage

A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others
-- Dennis Prager

#Bad Mood #Mood

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude
-- Dennis Prager

#Attitude #Feelings

Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing
-- Dennis Prager

#Character #Erosion #Guarantees

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

#Intellectual #Damage #Moral

Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom
-- Dennis Prager

#Essence #Patterns #Findings

The entire European Union is a left-wing dream
-- Dennis Prager

#Dream #Wings #Unions

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.
-- Dennis Prager

#Teaching #School #Character

If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.
-- Dennis Prager

#Evil #Tolerance #Ends

You owe others a happy disposition
-- Dennis Prager

#Disposition

Not everyone wants to be happy
-- Dennis Prager

#Want #Want To Be Happy

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption
-- Dennis Prager

#Government #Corruption #Bigger

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
-- Dennis Prager

#Men #Violence #Emotion

The further left you go, the meaner the spirit
-- Dennis Prager

#Spirit

If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful
-- Dennis Prager

#Unhappiness

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

#Evil #Allies #Belief

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

#Country #Libertarian #Too Much

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

#Evil #Groups #Belief

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

#Government #Taxation #Thievery

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

#Given #Matthew #Just Listen

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one
-- Dennis Prager

#Ideas #Creating #Rational

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something
-- Dennis Prager

#Prayer #Asking #Helping

Big government squashes the human spirit
-- Dennis Prager

#Government #Squash #Spirit

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.
-- Dennis Prager

#Gratitude #Grateful #Suffering

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea
-- Dennis Prager

#Ideas #Conservative #Wells

Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea
-- Dennis Prager

#Responsibility #Wings #Ideas

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness
-- Dennis Prager

#Grateful #Be Grateful

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy
-- Dennis Prager

#Mother #Repetition #Pedagogy

Climate change is the mother of all hysterias of the Left
-- Dennis Prager

#Mother #Hysteria #Climate

The Left needs causes like fish need water
-- Dennis Prager

#Water #Needs #Causes

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

#Ocean #Years #Worry

The more we complain, the more unhappy we get
-- Dennis Prager

#Unhappy #Complaining

It is a lie that America is racist
-- Dennis Prager

#Lying #America #Racist

If you're morally clear you are not on the Left
-- Dennis Prager

#Clear

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?
-- Dennis Prager

#Feminism #Pool #Happy Woman

Lying to the Left is like water to fish
-- Dennis Prager

#Lying #Water #Fishes

The more passions you have the happier you'll be
-- Dennis Prager

#Passion

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

#Names #People #Done

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

#Life Is Too Short #Life Is #Too Short

Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood
-- Dennis Prager

#People #Evil #Doe

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

#Daughter #Party #Men

The great are not famous, and the famous are not great
-- Dennis Prager

An unhappy life is a life not lived.
-- Dennis Prager

#Happy Life #Unhappy #Life Is

The Left neither cares about prosperity nor jobs. It cares about equality
-- Dennis Prager

#Jobs #Care #Prosperity

I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures
-- Dennis Prager

#Thinking #World #Goodness

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart
-- Dennis Prager

#Children #Rip #Spouse

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.
-- Dennis Prager

#Media #Against Violence #Males

I don't judge people by their theology, I judge them by their behavior
-- Dennis Prager

#People #Judging #Behavior

Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years
-- Dennis Prager

#Years #Wings #Hysteria

Only a fool can believe people are basically good
-- Dennis Prager

#Believe #People #Fool

We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions
-- Dennis Prager

#Fighting #Evil #Carbon

Self-control is the only possible road to character development
-- Dennis Prager

#Character #Self #Development

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists
-- Dennis Prager

#Produce #Leftists #University

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
-- Dennis Prager

#Airplane #Blow #Israel

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?
-- Dennis Prager

#Children #Thinking #People