Dennis Prager Quotes
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There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
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Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
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The further left one goes, the more negative the assessment of today's America and the America of the past.
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I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.
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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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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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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.
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The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'
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It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being.
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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.
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From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
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The ideas that America should be a 'melting pot' or that all Americans should identify as American are now unutterable in educated company. Indeed, many college campuses do not have an American flag on their campus because some students regard it as 'offensive' - representing imperialism and capitalism.
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Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.
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Of all the world's evils, child abuse may rank as the greatest.
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People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
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Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.
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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
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American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.
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For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
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The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.
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There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.
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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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There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal.
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Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.