Top 350 Dennis Prager Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Dennis Prager

203. “Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.”

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

205. “But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.”

— Dennis Prager

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Dennis Prager

209. “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

210. “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

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

213. “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

214. “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

215. “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

216. “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

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

— Dennis Prager

218. “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.”

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

221. “One cannot be a good person without gratitude, and one cannot be a happy person without gratitude. This provides a vital link between goodness and happiness.”

— Dennis Prager

222. “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

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

227. “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

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

230. “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

231. “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.”

— Dennis Prager

232. “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.”

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

234. “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

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

240. “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.”

— Dennis Prager

241. “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

242. “If you really do hate evil, you can’t hate anything else.”

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

244. “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.”

— Dennis Prager

245. “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

246. “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

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

— Dennis Prager

248. “Secular progressive thought also denies free will, viewing all our behavior as ultimately attributable to genes and environment. Between blaming society and denying free will, progressives are more interested in understanding violent criminals than in punishing them. That explains why in Norway, for example, the maximum sentence for murder is 21 years in prison, and few Norwegian murderers spend more than 14 years behind bars.”

— Dennis Prager

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

— Dennis Prager

250. “Political correctness is as coersive as any right-wing dogma, but it lescapes the tyranny charge because it locates its demands precisely upon feelings.”

— Dennis Prager