Top 350 Dennis Prager Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.”

— Dennis Prager

302. “The oft-cited charge that belief in God and religion has led to more wars and evil than anything else is as untrue as it is widely believed. Secular movements in the twentieth century alone killed and enslaved more people than any other movement in any century in history.”

— Dennis Prager

303. “I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat – and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.”

— Dennis Prager

304. “The Left neither cares about prosperity nor jobs. It cares about equality.”

— Dennis Prager

305. “In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.”

— Dennis Prager

306. “To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.”

— Dennis Prager

307. “With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need.”

— Dennis Prager

308. “Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.”

— Dennis Prager

309. “I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.”

— Dennis Prager

310. “One of the saddest facts of the human condition is that most people follow the herd. Sometimes, of course, the herd is morally right. That, obviously, is the ideal. But most good is achieved by individuals who have the courage to part from the majority when it is morally wrong. In addition, people tend to act worse in groups than when alone. The herd, not to mention the mob, emboldens people to do bad things they would rarely do if they had no such support.”

— Dennis Prager

311. “Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.”

— Dennis Prager

312. “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.”

— Dennis Prager

313. “The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.”

— Dennis Prager

314. “It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.”

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315. “Most people, like the Israelites, complain far more often than they express gratitude. People frequently register a complaint with a manufacturer or service provider, but they rarely write a note of thanks for a job well done. We would all do well to consider writing a thank you note each time we write a letter of complaint. Similarly, and more importantly, too many people criticize their spouses more often than they compliment them. That is the road to an unhappy marriage.”

— Dennis Prager

316. “Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being the President of the United States; she has done nothing important that is good.”

— Dennis Prager

317. “Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.”

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318. “It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right.”

— Dennis Prager

319. “If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful.”

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320. “Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?”

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321. “The great are not famous, and the famous are not great.”

— Dennis Prager

322. “Israel attacked Gaza solely in response to hundreds of rockets sent by Hamas to kill as many Israelis as possible.”

— Dennis Prager

323. “Once enough Americans reacquaint themselves with Americanism, we should promote it to all countries just as the Left promotes leftism and Muslims promote Islam. One need not be American to affirm Americanism.”

— Dennis Prager

324. “Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.”

— Dennis Prager

325. “In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.”

— Dennis Prager

326. “Hillary Clinton wanted to hide what she was doing so that there was no trail.”

— Dennis Prager

327. “It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.”

— Dennis Prager

328. “The problem in our time is that maturity is not high on the list of goals we offer the next generation. We stress happiness, success, and intelligence but not maturity. And that is too bad, both for society, which suffers when too many of its members are immature, and for the individual who wants to be happy. For happiness is not available to the immature. And one of the prominent characteristics of immaturity is seeing oneself primarily as a victim.”

— Dennis Prager

329. “If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.”

— Dennis Prager

330. “The greatest hope most Americans – including Republicans – had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country’s president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations.”

— Dennis Prager

331. “Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic.”

— Dennis Prager

332. “The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior.”

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333. “Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”

— Dennis Prager

334. “America will nurture a new Muslim – one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.”

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335. “The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk.”

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336. “The words ‘I’m sorry’ are so powerful that it’s almost difficult to overstate.”

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337. “There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal.”

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338. “The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.”

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339. “Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.”

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340. “The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.”

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341. “For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.”

— Dennis Prager

342. “If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you’re proud of them, celebrate.”

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343. “Big government squashes the human spirit.”

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344. “There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.”

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345. “The left is far more concerned with attacking America – its alleged racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia and economic inequality – than with fighting Islamism.”

— Dennis Prager

346. “The more passions you have the happier you’ll be.”

— Dennis Prager

347. “Just listen to Chris Matthews on any given day and you will see what’s acceptable on the Left.”

— Dennis Prager

348. “The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.”

— Dennis Prager

349. “If the question is ‘How do we stop enormous evils in the world?’ the answer is, unfortunately, quite frequently ‘War.’ Nazi and Japanese racist genocide were ended by soldiers shooting people, and by bombers bombing people, not by people who believed ’war is not the answer.”

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350. “The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.”

— Dennis Prager