Top 100 Dennis Prager Sayings
#1. There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.
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#2. I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year
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#3. 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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#4. 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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#7. 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.
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#8. Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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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#11. The Arab world has no peer when it comes to hatred - of the Western world generally, and especially of Israel. Israel-hatred and its twin, Jew-hatred, are the oxygen that the Arab world breathes.
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#12. Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?
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#13. The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.
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#15. The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme
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#16. It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent
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#17. 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.
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#18. The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.
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#19. Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.
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#20. The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk
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#21. If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
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#22. It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.
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#23. The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem
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#24. If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.
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#25. Why, then, do the Ten Commandments include a law that prohibits a thought? Because it is coveting that so often leads to evil. Or, to put it another way, coveting is what leads to violating the preceding four commandments - the ones against murder, adultery, stealing, and perjury.
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#26. 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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#27. 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.
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#28. The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.
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#29. 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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#31. The essential message of Judaism and Christianity is that life is not an end in itself. Life is to be a means - to goodness, to sanctity, and to God. The belief in life as an end in itself is a form of idolatry.
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#32. If
we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance
instead
of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of
evil.
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#33. If you really do hate evil, you can't hate anything else
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#34. There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil
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#35. Israel attacked Gaza solely in response to hundreds of rockets sent by Hamas to kill as many Israelis as possible.
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#36. Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you
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#37. There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.
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#38. When it comes to fighting evil, the left is almost pacifist.
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#39. Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness
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#40. While individual human beings do enormous good, mankind has always been morally unimpressive.
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#41. If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful
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#42. The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.
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#43. To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.
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#44. The best way to combat racism is to have blacks and whites relate to one another as individuals, rather than as racial abstractions ... It becomes much harder to make a nasty generalization about another group after you have spent time in the home of one if its members.
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#45. 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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#46. Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.
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#47. Wisdom begins with reverence for God.
No God, no wisdom (witness your local university).
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#48. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
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#49. If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.
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#50. Liberals don't ask 'Does it work?' They ask 'Does it equalize?'
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#51. Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.
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#54. 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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#55. One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
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#56. 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.
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#57. You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write
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#62. The more passions you have the happier you'll be
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#63. The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people.
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#65. 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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#66. People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.
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#67. No significant American group hates like the left does. If you differ with them - from global warming, to race relations, to same-sex marriage, to the extent of rape on college campuses - they will humiliate, defame, libel and try to economically crush you.
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#68. 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.
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#69. I believe that free money is as addictive as cocaine
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#70. I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.
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#71. Left-wing thinking is that difference means unequal; therefore, all difference must be denied
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#73. 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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#75. Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion
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#76. Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man
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#77. Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.
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#78. Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea
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#79. We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions
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#80. 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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#81. Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
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#82. 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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#83. God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?
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#84. To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.
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#85. Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents.
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#86. The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.
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#87. 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.
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#88. We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it
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#89. The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.
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#90. 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.
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#91. The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior
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#93. Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?
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#96. For the Left, politics is the way to transform the world; for conservatives, politics is primarily the way to stop the Left from doing so. The former is much more fulfilling than the latter.
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#98. 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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#99. 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.
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#100. 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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