Top 350 Dennis Prager Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

252. “Most evil comes from the belief that one is a victim, or one’s group is a victim.”

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253. “The Arab world has no peer when it comes to hatred – of the Western world generally, and especially of Israel. Israel-hatred and its twin, Jew-hatred, are the oxygen that the Arab world breathes.”

— Dennis Prager

254. “Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.”

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255. “The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women.”

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256. “When you don’t believe in anything except not dying, you don’t really believe in anything.”

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257. “Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea.”

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258. “I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word ‘wisdom’ in the past year.”

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

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260. “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.”

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261. “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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262. “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.”

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

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264. “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.”

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265. “Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?”

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266. “The Left needs causes like fish need water.”

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267. “The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.”

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268. “For all of higher civilization’s recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.”

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269. “Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of ‘Noah.’ We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.”

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270. “That’s the great question: Who sees the miracles of daily life? And the answer is: Whoever chooses to see.”

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271. “I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. ‘Give me more than half of your honestly earned money or you will be arrested’ is legalized thievery.”

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272. “To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.”

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273. “Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.”

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274. “The Left is totalitarian in its nature.”

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275. “Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man.”

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276. “Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to ‘progressive’ values is morally acceptable, even demanded.”

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277. “Americans who do not see themselves as victims – of an ‘unfair’ or ‘racist’ or ‘misogynist’ society – are more likely to vote Republican. On the other hand, Americans who see themselves as victims of American society are likely to vote Democrat. Therefore, the Democratic Party and its supportive media cultivate victimhood among almost all Americans who are not white and male.”

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278. “The Ten Commandments are the greatest list of instructions ever devised for creating a good society. But such a society cannot be created or maintained if it is not based on truth.”

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279. “This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies.”

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280. “Muslim religious leaders – from Al-Azhar in Cairo to local imams throughout the world – need to say exactly what Pope Francis said to the Catholic members of the Mafia: ‘Any Muslim who commits an act of terror – that is, deliberately murders civilians of any nationality or religion – goes to hell.”

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281. “Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?”

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282. “Almost every major news medium on earth is either center-left or left. And the left around the world loathes America.”

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283. “Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents.”

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284. “You owe others a happy disposition.”

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285. “I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.”

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286. “I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.”

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287. “Another problem with the view that you don’t need God to believe that murder is wrong is that a lot of people haven’t shared your view. And you don’t have to go back very far in history to prove this. In the twentieth century millions of people in Communist societies and under Nazism killed about one hundred million people – and that doesn’t count a single soldier killed in war. So, don’t get too confident about people’s ability to figure out right from wrong without a Higher Authority.”

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288. “You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.”

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289. “Humans don’t really like freedom of speech,” Lukianoff told them, “they like to say they like it. And they definitely like their won freedom of speech. They don’t necessarily like your freedom of speech that much.”

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290. “America was always a religious country, and it remains the most religious of industrialized Western democracies. America derived its strength from religion, not secularism.”

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291. “Liberalism means well, but it destroys.”

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292. “Where, sir, are the Christian and Jewish jihadists? The only Jewish state in the world is one of the freest countries on earth, with protections for minority religions and women and homosexuals unknown anywhere in the Muslim world. And virtually every free country in the world is in the Christian world.”

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293. “You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.”

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294. “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.”

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295. “To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as ‘I believe that God said murder is wrong’ is a statement of faith.”

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296. “In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.”

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297. “It is a world of lies that permeates the Left.”

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298. “I just don’t understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one.”

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299. “The next time you hear someone cite, ‘Do not kill’ when quoting the sixth commandment, gently but firmly explain that it actually says, ‘Do not murder.”

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300. “The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.”

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