Welcome to the world of Dennis Prager quotes, where wisdom meets insight and clarity. Dennis Prager, a renowned American conservative radio talk show host, author, and public speaker, has left an indelible mark on the realms of philosophy, politics, and culture. With his distinctive voice and unwavering convictions, Prager imparts timeless truths and thought-provoking perspectives that resonate with audiences across the globe.
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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 homemaking. Dennis Prager
In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father – of men as men, in other words. Dennis Prager
The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. Dennis Prager
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of. Dennis Prager
There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I. Dennis Prager
The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither. Dennis Prager
There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There’s absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality. Dennis Prager
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. Dennis Prager
I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat – and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health. Dennis Prager
To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith. Dennis Prager
In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man. Dennis Prager
The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion. Dennis Prager
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. Dennis Prager
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
Most people who call themselves conservatives can’t explain the American value system. Dennis Prager
Once enough Americans reacquaint themselves with Americanism, we should promote it to all countries just as the Left promotes leftism and Muslims promote Islam. One need not be American to affirm Americanism. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. Dennis Prager
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
Most young people have tremendous respect for older people’s views. Dennis Prager
The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible. Dennis Prager
With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country’s inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem – and largely a hindrance, not an asset. Dennis Prager
Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine. Dennis Prager
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds. Dennis Prager
Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media. Dennis Prager
Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. Dennis Prager
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
Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left’s depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world. Dennis Prager
I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air. Dennis Prager
Corruption is Africa’s greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism. Dennis Prager
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
Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don’t know what they would do. Dennis Prager
If we weren’t born with anti-social passions – narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious – why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? Dennis Prager
Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
Complaining not only ruins everybody else’s day, it ruins the complainer’s day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get. Dennis Prager
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. Dennis Prager
Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents ‘radical’ and ‘extremist.’ However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme. Dennis Prager
There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal. Dennis Prager
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.’ Dennis Prager
Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples. Dennis Prager
To be told that one can be dependent on one’s parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate. Dennis Prager
But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life. Dennis Prager
Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion. Dennis Prager
There is little correlation between the circumstances of people’s lives and how happy they are. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound. Dennis Prager
There’s a lot more power in calm than in vituperation. Dennis Prager
When watching ‘The Passion,’ Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and killed. For the same two hours, Jews watch Jews arrange the killing and torture of the Christians’ Savior. Dennis Prager
There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War. Dennis Prager
For all of higher civilization’s recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. Dennis Prager
Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals. Dennis Prager
The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. Dennis Prager
The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too. Dennis Prager
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
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
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. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
Obviously, the issue for the Left isn’t aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
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 neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven’t even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them. Dennis Prager
The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus’ people. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term. Dennis Prager
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
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
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
I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes. Dennis Prager
Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of ‘Noah.’ We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original. Dennis Prager
The evidence in this universe for design – or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by ‘enough time’ – is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. Dennis Prager
If your religion doesn’t teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. Dennis Prager
When Jews left Judaism, they didn’t stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion. Dennis Prager
To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
For the Left, affluence is won, not earned. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues. Dennis Prager
The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest. 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