Quotes by Dennis Prager

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Dennis Prager is an American politically conservative nationally syndicated radio talk show host, columnist, author, and public speaker.
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Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

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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 ...

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The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

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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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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 serio...

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

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Most blacks want school vouchers, but most liberals vehemently oppose them. Why? Because what is good for teachers' unions is of more importance to the Left than what is good for blacks. Who, then, is racist? By their own admission, and by the polici...

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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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No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

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

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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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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 th...

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But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

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The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your n...

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Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

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

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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 ...

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Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

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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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As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameDennis Prager
  • DescriptionAmerican writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theologian
  • BornAugust 2, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionRadio Host; Author