Quotes By Dennis Prager

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

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 Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

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.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

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.