Dennis Prager Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

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

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

The further left you go, the meaner the spirit

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

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

First tell the truth, then give your opinion.

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

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

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.

The entire European Union is a left-wing dream

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.

That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions

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

I prefer clarity over agreement

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