Top 350 Dennis Prager Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.”

— Dennis Prager

102. “If your religion doesn’t teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.”

— Dennis Prager

103. “Gratitude: Only when people remember the good others have done for them will they have gratitude. Unfortunately, however, most people remember the bad people have done to them far longer than the good. Or to put it another way, gratitude takes effort; resentment is effortless.”

— Dennis Prager

104. “Lying to the Left is like water to fish.”

— Dennis Prager

105. “Societies are preoccupied with just about everything other than making good people. For some, it is intelligence. Parents are often more concerned with their children’s IQs than their children’s characters. And many people confuse higher education with decency and moral insight.”

— Dennis Prager

106. “Second, honoring parents is how nearly all of us come to recognize that there is a moral authority above us to whom we are morally accountable.”

— Dennis Prager

107. “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

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

110. “The only happy people I know are people I don’t know well.”

— Dennis Prager

111. “Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.”

— Dennis Prager

112. “Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists.”

— Dennis Prager

113. “When Israel gave Gaza over to the Palestinians, it did not embargo essentials such as cement. But none of the millions of tons of cement allowed, or later smuggled, into Gaza were used to building schools or hospitals. They were used to build tunnels to smuggle terrorists into Israel and to hide rockets.”

— Dennis Prager

114. “God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?”

— Dennis Prager

115. “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

116. “Though Israel is charged with engaging in genocide against Palestinians, in the last 20 years, the number of Palestinians has doubled; and since Israel’s founding in 1948, the Palestinian population has grown five-fold. It must surely rank as the least effective genocide in world history.”

— Dennis Prager

117. “Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.”

— Dennis Prager

118. “Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness.”

— Dennis Prager

119. “The Left corrupts everything it touches.”

— Dennis Prager

120. “The further left you go, the meaner the spirit.”

— Dennis Prager

121. “It is a lie that America is racist.”

— Dennis Prager

122. “The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.”

— Dennis Prager

123. “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

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

— Dennis Prager

125. “People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.”

— Dennis Prager

126. “It is almost impossible to do good without wisdom. All the good intentions in the world are likely to be worthless without wisdom. Many of the horrors of the twentieth century were supported by people with good intentions who lacked wisdom.”

— Dennis Prager

127. “There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it’s evil.”

— Dennis Prager

128. “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

129. “I don’t judge people by their theology, I judge them by their behavior.”

— Dennis Prager

130. “If there is no God, we know there is no ultimate meaning or purpose to life: that all existence – including, of course, our own – is the result of random chance.”

— Dennis Prager

131. “Without God and religion you don’t have moral truth, you have moral opinion.”

— Dennis Prager

132. “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

133. “The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.”

— Dennis Prager

134. “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

135. “If nothing is holy, nothing is profane.”

— Dennis Prager

136. “To be an atheist is to believe the universe came about by itself, life came from non-life by itself, and consciousness came about by itself.”

— Dennis Prager

137. “More people have done good in the name of God than any other way.”

— Dennis Prager

138. “Without God, right and wrong are just personal beliefs. Personal opinions. I think shoplifting is okay, you don’t.”

— Dennis Prager

139. “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

140. “Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.”

— Dennis Prager

141. “Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness.”

— Dennis Prager

142. “I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed?”

— Dennis Prager

143. “When America doesn’t act, bad things happen.”

— Dennis Prager

144. “Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics.”

— Dennis Prager

145. “There were slave traders, Nazis, and Communists who were compassionate in their personal lives, but all of them told, and most of them believed, some great lie that enabled them to participate in a great evil. Black slavery was made possible in large measure by the lie that blacks were innately inferior to whites.”

— Dennis Prager

146. “My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities.”

— Dennis Prager

147. “The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality.”

— Dennis Prager

148. “The Left will destroy what is good to try to make what is perfect. That is the motto of the Left.”

— Dennis Prager

149. “Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.”

— Dennis Prager

150. “Like Whitney Houston, we believe the children are the future. But adults are in charge of the present, and we should start acting like it.”

— Dennis Prager