Quotes By Dennis Prager

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

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

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

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

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.

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.

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

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.

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

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

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

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

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

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

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.