Dennis Prager Quotes

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.
Dennis Prager

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.
Dennis Prager

Work, Home, Truth

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

Government, Understand, Liberty

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

God, Justice, Ultimate

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
Dennis Prager

Person, Write, Public

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.
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Happiness, Happy, Person

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
Dennis Prager

Family, History, Taking

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
Dennis Prager

Music, Human, Why

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.
Dennis Prager

Won, Left, Earned

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.
Dennis Prager

Sometimes, Suffering, Grateful

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
Dennis Prager

Society, Greatest, Why

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

Life, Good, Lives

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.
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War, Human, Lost

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
Dennis Prager

Political, Seen, Lifetime

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.
Dennis Prager

Men, Live, Parents

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.
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Home, Position, Abstract

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.
Dennis Prager

Religion, Values, Undo

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.
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Toward, Meanness, Echo

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
Dennis Prager

Success, Family, Society

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.
Dennis Prager

Everything, American, High

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.
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Respect, Young, Older

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
Dennis Prager

Education, Great, Mind

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
Dennis Prager

Life, Family, Society

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 of it, caused crime.
Dennis Prager

Good, Evil, Human

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.
Dennis Prager

Said, Become, Committed

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Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 2, 1948

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