Dennis prager quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Those who don't hate evil hate those who do

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

"I am bored" generally means "I am boring."

The biggest battle in life is with yourself

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

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

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

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head.

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.

Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.

Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.

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.

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

With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset.

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

When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.

Happiness is impossible without gratitude.

Lying to the Left is like water to fish

The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

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

The further left you go, the meaner the spirit

It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination '

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.

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.

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

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

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

You know what I ask Jewish liberals? 'Why don't you preach what you practice?'

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

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

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.

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

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.

The Libertarian Party is a shameful party

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

Just because you cannot fight every evil does not mean you should fight no evils.

The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.

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.

Happiness is a moral obligation

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).

The Obama administration will never say 'radical Islam.' Never.

Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

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

I prefer clarity over agreement

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

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

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

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.

We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

By definition, the moment one crosses from center to left, one accepts more government control of people's lives. Therefore, the further left society moves, the more there is government control over its citizens' lives. It is astonishing that this obvious fact is not universally acknowledged and that the Left has somehow successfully portrayed itself as preoccupied with personal liberty.

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

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.

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.

In attempting to understand 9/11, the first question asked by the world's elites - as exemplified by leading media and academics - was, 'What did America do to provoke such hatred?' Ten years later, the same people are still asking the same question. And it is as morally repulsive now as it was then. It was always on par with 'What did the Jews do to antagonize the Germans? Or 'What did blacks do to enrage lynch mobs?'

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

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

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

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain 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.

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

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

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

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

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

First tell the truth, then give your opinion.

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

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.

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

Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look at the high level of eighth-grade exams from early in the 20th century and you will weep. The more money the Left has gotten for education - America now spends more per student than any country in the world - the worse the academic results. And the Left has removed God and dress codes from schools - with socially disastrous results.

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

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

Many liberals believe in God; many conservatives do. What matters is not whether people believe in God but what text, if any, they believe to be divine. Those who believe that He has spoken through a given text will generally think differently from those who believe that no text is divine. Such people will usually get their values from other texts, or more likely from their conscience and heart.

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

There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate

Lies and victimhood make evil possible

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

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

The more we complain, the more unhappy we get

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude

Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.

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

Only a fool can believe people are basically good

The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another. If the state will take care of me and my neighbors, why should I? This is why Western Europeans, people who have lived in welfare states far longer than Americans have, give less to charity and volunteer less time to others than do Americans of the same socioeconomic status.

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

Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.

Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent

Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

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.

If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful

What generations created, the Left destroys. There are few productive and noble institutions in America that the Left has not hurt or attempted to hurt. But while the Left destroys a great deal, it constructs almost nothing (outside of government agencies, laws, and lawsuits).

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

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.

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

America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.

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