Dennis Prager Quotes

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

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

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

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

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.

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.

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

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

If pain were water, the world would drown

When America doesn't act, bad things happen

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

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

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.

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

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.

I believe that free money is as addictive as cocaine

The Libertarian Party is a shameful party

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

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.

Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican'

You owe others a happy disposition

The worldview of the Left is a battle between rich and poor

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

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

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.

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

It is a world of lies that permeates the Left

The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.

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

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

The Left will destroy what is good to try to make what is perfect. That is the motto of the Left

The more passions you have the happier you'll be

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal.

The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations.

Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on.

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

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.

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

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?

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger