Dennis Prager Quotes - Page 10

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

Secularism produces a bored soul

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.

Enough generations of socialist policies have now passed for us to judge their effects. They are bleak. Socialism undermines the character of a nation and of its citizens. In simpler words, socialism makes people worse.

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

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

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.

As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European countries rely on America to fight the world's evil, and even to defend them

If you really do hate evil, you can't hate anything else

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

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

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.

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.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.

The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant bombs at a nightclub in Bali, or slit stewardesses' throats and ram airplanes filled with innocent Americans into office buildings do not do so for any reason related to poverty. They do so because they hold evil beliefs and have deformed consciences

There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians

The Left needs causes like fish need water

Left-wing thinking is that difference means unequal; therefore, all difference must be denied