Top 350 Dennis Prager Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing.”

— Dennis Prager

52. “First tell the truth, then give your opinion.”

— Dennis Prager

53. “Let us make war on the phrase ‘violence doesn’t solve anything.’ It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.”

— Dennis Prager

54. “The ’60s redefined narcissism as idealism.”

— Dennis Prager

55. “We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions.”

— Dennis Prager

56. “The bigger the government, the greater the corruption.”

— Dennis Prager

57. “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

58. “Socialism values equality more than liberty.”

— Dennis Prager

59. “Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.”

— Dennis Prager

60. “The love of freedom is actually an aberration.”

— Dennis Prager

61. “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

62. “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

63. “The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.”

— Dennis Prager

64. “Leftism and narcissism are almost synonymous.”

— Dennis Prager

65. “There is nothing – not any religious or secular body of work – that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.”

— Dennis Prager

66. “Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one.”

— Dennis Prager

67. “The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life.”

— Dennis Prager

68. “All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.”

— Dennis Prager

69. “To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.”

— Dennis Prager

70. “Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.”

— Dennis Prager

71. “Identity without democracy is totalitarian; democracy without identity is weak and self-betraying.”

— Dennis Prager

72. “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?”

— Dennis Prager

73. “God gave the Ten Commandments in the no-man’s land of a desert rather than in the land of Israel, to signify these laws do not just belong to one people, but to all humanity.”

— Dennis Prager

74. “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

75. “The more that you expect, the less happy you will be – because if the expectations are realized you won’t be grateful.”

— Dennis Prager

76. “When women criticize men it’s called feminism. When men criticize women it’s called misogyny.”

— Dennis Prager

77. “If pain were water, the world would drown.”

— Dennis Prager

78. “Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism – labeling each new entitlement a ‘right reinforces this sense of entitlement.’ -.”

— Dennis Prager

79. “If you go through life cheating others, you will go through life expecting others to cheat you. Liars expect to be lied to; cheaters expect to be cheated; and so on.”

— Dennis Prager

80. “Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart.”

— Dennis Prager

81. “Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion.”

— Dennis Prager

82. “A lack of empathy is a defining characteristic of the sociopath.”

— Dennis Prager

83. “I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed.”

— Dennis Prager

84. “How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane – not just extraordinary things.”

— Dennis Prager

85. “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

86. “Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship – spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. This is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one.”

— Dennis Prager

87. “I believe that free money is as addictive as cocaine.”

— Dennis Prager

88. “The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war.”

— Dennis Prager

89. “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

90. “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

91. “Those of you who love the Lord should hate evil.”

— Dennis Prager

92. “The Ten Commandments are preoccupied with goodness. Each commandment is a moral tour de force. Together they present the most compelling plan ever devised for a better life and good world. Yet, they were written – and in the eyes of hundreds of millions, revealed by the Creator – three thousand years ago. The Ten Commandments are what began humanity’s long, arduous journey toward moral progress.”

— Dennis Prager

93. “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

94. “Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood.”

— Dennis Prager

95. “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

96. “Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God’s existence.”

— Dennis Prager

97. “Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people.”

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

100. “One of humanity’s most common character traits is ingratitude.”

— Dennis Prager