Quotes By Dennis Prager

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.