Top 350 Dennis Prager Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The world’s thinking is morally confused because it is informed by the morally confused.”

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

153. “American is deteriorating because it is becoming like other countries.”

— Dennis Prager

154. “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

155. “From Marx until today, victim groups have played an indispensable role in Leftist success. Without victim groups, the Left cannot succeed.”

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

157. “Israel is the only country in the world targeted for annihilation.”

— Dennis Prager

158. “Libertarians should say, ‘I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican’”

— Dennis Prager

159. “Gratitude takes effort; resentment is effortless.”

— Dennis Prager

160. “The best way to combat racism is to have blacks and whites relate to one another as individuals, rather than as racial abstractions... It becomes much harder to make a nasty generalization about another group after you have spent time in the home of one if its members.”

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

162. “Liberals don’t ask ‘Does it work?’ They ask ‘Does it equalize?’”

— Dennis Prager

163. “The left regards murderers, rapists, thieves and other violent criminals more as victims than as contemptible. Violent criminals do what they do because of poverty, racism and inequality, progressives argue.”

— Dennis Prager

164. “Just because you cannot fight every evil does not mean you should fight no evils.”

— Dennis Prager

165. “Without aging white males, I doubt the ‘New York Times’ would survive. How many young people, females, Hispanics and blacks subscribe to the ‘New York Times?’”

— Dennis Prager

166. “Left-wing thinking is that difference means unequal; therefore, all difference must be denied.”

— Dennis Prager

167. “According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.”

— Dennis Prager

168. “Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States.”

— Dennis Prager

169. “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

170. “Whatever sins Christians engaged in the past, and they were extensive, the fact is that the most humane and decent countries in the world nearly all have Christian origins. That is not true of states that grew out of Islam.”

— Dennis Prager

171. “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

172. “Most people know there is no country in the world more accepting of strangers than is America. After three generations, people who have emigrated to Germany or France or Sweden do not feel – and are not regarded as – fully German, French, or Swedish. Yet anyone of any background from any country is regarded as fully American the moment he or she becomes one. The country that the Left routinely calls ‘xenophobic’ and ‘racist’ is, in fact, the least racist and xenophobic in the world.”

— Dennis Prager

173. “If the United States doesn’t lead then evil triumphs.”

— Dennis Prager

174. “Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years.”

— Dennis Prager

175. “Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular Americans.”

— Dennis Prager

176. “That’s a phenomenon of the Left: You don’t fight evil. You fight carbon emissions.”

— Dennis Prager

177. “The Left would like to believe that racism – not the breakdown of marriage and family, the absence of religious norms, a degraded popular culture, and other issues that all concern values – is the primary impediment to black progress in America. Therefore the Left declares racism the greatest impediment to black progress.”

— Dennis Prager

178. “Nearly every African who has given the issue thought knows that America is not only not racist, it is the best place for an African to immigrate to. That is why more black Africans have come to America voluntarily than came to America as slaves – a statistic that virtually no college student is allowed to know.”

— Dennis Prager

179. “There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians.”

— Dennis Prager

180. “Left-wing policies don’t stop the rich from being rich, they stop the non-rich from getting rich.”

— Dennis Prager

181. “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

182. “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

183. “As a result of the Left’s sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European countries rely on America to fight the world’s evil, and even to defend them.”

— Dennis Prager

184. “If you’re morally clear you are not on the Left.”

— Dennis Prager

185. “A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It’s unfair to the children, and it’s unfair to the other human being.”

— Dennis Prager

186. “I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled.”

— Dennis Prager

187. “The easily embarrassed doesn’t learn.”

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188. “The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage.”

— Dennis Prager

189. “We live in a world filled with evil and moral confusion. There is only one way out: affirmation of a God Whose primary demand of us is that we treat our fellow human beings decently.”

— Dennis Prager

190. “There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that’s all you will hate.”

— Dennis Prager

191. “We are undermining a generation’s happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity.”

— Dennis Prager

192. “Not everyone wants to be happy.”

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193. “A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don’t control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly.”

— Dennis Prager

194. “Climate change is the mother of all hysterias of the Left.”

— Dennis Prager

195. “The Missing Tile syndrome is ubiquitous. If you are overweight, all you see are flat stomachs and perfect physical specimens. If you have pimples, all you see is flawless skin. Women who have difficulty getting pregnant walk around seeing only pregnant women and babies. Nor do you need to be overweight, have pimples, be balding, or want a child to believe that you have a missing tile. You can allow any real – or merely perceived – flaw to diminish your happiness.”

— Dennis Prager

196. “What does it mean to “carry” or to “misuse” God’s name? It means committing evil in God’s name. And that God will not forgive. Why not? When an irreligious person commits evil, it doesn’t bring God and religion into disrepute. But when religious people commit evil, especially in God’s name, they are not only committing evil, they are doing terrible damage to the name of God.”

— Dennis Prager

197. “Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.”

— Dennis Prager

198. “Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you.”

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199. “I don’t let the hate go to my heart, and I don’t let the praise go to my head.”

— Dennis Prager

200. “You know what I ask Jewish liberals? ‘Why don’t you preach what you practice?’”

— Dennis Prager