Quotes By Dennis Prager

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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