Top 100 Dennis Prager Quotes
#2. Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.
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#3. I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.
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#4. I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed?
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#5. Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.
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#6. You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one.
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#7. Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see composition and lighting and do not see their civilization being pissed upon, we are in trouble.
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#8. Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.
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#9. 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?
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#10. The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior
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#11. God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?
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#12. There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe by those who don?t believe.
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#13. I often wonder if I am entitled to be as happy as I am, given the amount of suffering in the world.
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#14. If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
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#15. The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk
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#16. The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.
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#17. 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.
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#19. We owe it to our husband or wife, our fellow workers, our children, our friends, indeed to everyone who comes into our lives, to be as happy as we can be.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Wisdom begins with reverence for God.
No God, no wisdom (witness your local university).
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#22. Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.
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#23. The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.
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#24. There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.
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#25. When it comes to fighting evil, the left is almost pacifist.
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#26. There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.
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#27. There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil
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#28. A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly
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#29. But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.
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#30. The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage
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#32. Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life
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#33. In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
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#34. Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don't even have that.
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#35. Without aging white males, I doubt the 'New York Times' would survive. How many young people, females, Hispanics and blacks subscribe to the 'New York Times?'
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#37. There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.
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#38. Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.
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#39. To receive children's love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the
most powerful emotional experiences available.
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#40. Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.
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#41. 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.
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#42. No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.
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#44. 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).
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#46. Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives
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#47. The more that you expect, the less happy you will be
because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful
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#49. Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.
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#50. I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.
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#51. People who murder in the name of God not only kill their victims, they kill God, too.
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#52. I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed
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#53. In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.
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#55. Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child ...
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#57. A society can survive bad donkey drivers. But it cannot survive contempt for truth - whether inside or outside a courtroom.
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#58. The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.
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#59. I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.
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#61. How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane
not just extraordinary things
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#63. The worldview of the Left is a battle between rich and poor
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#64. The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate
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#65. Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists
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#66. Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.
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#67. If the United States doesn't lead then evil triumphs
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#70. Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States
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#71. I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one
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#72. There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians
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#73. Almost every major news medium on earth is either center-left or left. And the left around the world loathes America.
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#74. The bigger the government, the greater the corruption
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#76. Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.
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#77. It does not matter what position you take on the Left, you are safe and secure. But that is not at all the case for positions that the Right take on. You are not safe and secure, so you travel with bodyguards
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#78. I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.
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#79. Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything
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#80. Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years
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#81. My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities
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#82. Self-control is the only possible road to character development
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#83. You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.
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#84. There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate
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#85. Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.
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#86. There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
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#87. 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.
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#88. That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions
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#89. Life is too short not to enjoy as much of it as you can
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#90. Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people
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#91. Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something
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#92. Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing
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#93. Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.
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#94. If you build a society in which children honor their parents, your society will long survive. And the corollary is: A society in which children do not honor their parents is doomed to self-destruction.
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#96. The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world
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#97. The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war
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#98. Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
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#99. 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.
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#100. The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better
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