Top 350 Dennis Prager Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.”

— Dennis Prager

204. “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.”

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205. “There are far more kind and honest people than there are courageous people.”

— Dennis Prager

206. “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

207. “It does not matter what position you take on the Left, you are safe and secure. But that is not at all the case for positions that the Right take on. You are not safe and secure, so you travel with bodyguards.”

— Dennis Prager

208. “From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.”

— Dennis Prager

209. “All of the goodness in the world doesn’t amount to a hill of beans without courage.”

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210. “Without a philosophy of life, we do not know how to react to what life deals us. Our happiness bounces up and down, determined by the day’s events and the immediate emotions they elicit rather than by sober reflection. Without being able to place events into perspective – which comes from having a philosophy of life – we are at the mercy of events. Our ship has no destination and no compass.”

— Dennis Prager

211. “All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.”

— Dennis Prager

212. “We owe it to our husband or wife, our fellow workers, our children, our friends, indeed to everyone who comes into our lives, to be as happy as we can be.”

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213. “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

214. “A society can survive bad donkey drivers. But it cannot survive contempt for truth – whether inside or outside a courtroom.”

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215. “A father and a mother who are not honored are essentially adult peers of their children. They are not parents. No generation knows better than ours the terrible consequences of growing up without a father. Fatherless boys are far more likely to grow up and commit violent crime, mistreat women, and act out against society in every other way. Girls who do not have a father to honor – and, hopefully, to love as well – are more likely to seek the wrong men and to be promiscuous at an early age.”

— Dennis Prager

216. “One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.”

— Dennis Prager

217. “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.”

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218. “People who murder in the name of God not only kill their victims, they kill God, too.”

— Dennis Prager

219. “Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.”

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220. “Why, then, do the Ten Commandments include a law that prohibits a thought? Because it is coveting that so often leads to evil. Or, to put it another way, coveting is what leads to violating the preceding four commandments – the ones against murder, adultery, stealing, and perjury.”

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221. “Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives.”

— Dennis Prager

222. “As colleges and universities became dominated by the Left, tolerance and diversity fell by the wayside. The rising hostility toward liberal values like free speech has made entire college campuses unsafe places for people who align with the Right.”

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223. “Does the unborn human fetus have at any point the right to live?”

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224. “There’s a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.”

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225. “Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.”

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226. “A rabbi challenged his followers one day: “Where does God exist?” Puzzled by what almost seemed to be a heretical question, they answered: “God exists everywhere.” “No,” the rabbi responded: “God exists wherever man lets Him in.”

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227. “Everyone of us plays ‘tapes’ from our parents until we die. That’s why it’s so important to talk good values to your child.”

— Dennis Prager

228. “Those who don’t fight evil hate those who do; and those who don’t fight real evils make up little evils.”

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229. “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

230. “The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.”

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231. “Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger.”

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232. “Blessed are You God, ruler of the world, Who created man in wisdom and created within him numerous orifices and spaces. It is known and revealed before You that if one of them should open when it should close or one of them should close when it should open, it would be impossible for us to exist. Blessed are You God, Who heals all mankind and does wonders.”

— Dennis Prager

233. “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

234. “Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”

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235. “The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem.”

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236. “Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.”

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237. “Individuals initiate mass evil, but they need the collaboration of many people to carry it out.”

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238. “You will be a happier person if you don’t do what you want to do, most of the time.”

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239. “Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?”

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240. “Most young people have tremendous respect for older people’s views.”

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241. “Most people who call themselves conservatives can’t explain the American value system.”

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242. “If you ask what’s best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat.”

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243. “You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one.”

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244. “The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world.”

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245. “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.”

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246. “I can’t think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures.”

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247. “The number of innocents killed by Leftist movements dwarfs the numbers killed by any other movement in a comparable period of time at any time in history, and certainly in the modern world. The Church, a favorite target of the Left, hardly competes. For example, in its nearly five hundred years of existence the Inquisition killed approximately five thousand people. And that ended more than five hundred years ago, when barbarity was the norm.”

— Dennis Prager

248. “There is no happiness that isn’t earned.”

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249. “Universities are the most anti-Israel mainstream institutions in America. And Westerns journalists nearly always use militant or gunman to describe Islamist terrorists. For Reuters, BBC, the Associated Press, CNN, and nearly all newspapers, it violates moral neutrality to label even a man attempting to smash a bomb-laden car into a nightclub a terrorist.”

— Dennis Prager

250. “You’re ‘wealthy’ if you don’t worry.”

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