Dennis Prager Quotes

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Dennis Prager

Happy, Lazy, Ungrateful

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.
Dennis Prager

Else, Unhappy, Everybody

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Dennis Prager

Courage, Character, Kindness

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
Dennis Prager

Angry, Nothing, Jealous

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
Dennis Prager

Religion, Good, Evil

Socialism values equality more than liberty.
Dennis Prager

Equality, Liberty, Socialism

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

Life, Love, Friendship

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
Dennis Prager

Society, Greatest, Evil

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.
Dennis Prager

Respect, Mind, Vote

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
Dennis Prager

Happiness, Nature, Society

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
Dennis Prager

Good, Evil, Rich

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
Dennis Prager

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

Happiness, Children, Parents

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
Dennis Prager

Good, Strength, Weak

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

Good, Person, Rather

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
Dennis Prager

Life, Nature, Good

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

Freedom, Liberty, State

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.
Dennis Prager

Life, Happy, Gratitude

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.
Dennis Prager

Religious, Muslim, Western

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

Age, Parents, Person

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

Alone, Angry, Unhappy

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
Dennis Prager

Done, Century, Harm

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.
Dennis Prager

Fact, Few, Less

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.
Dennis Prager

Heart, True, State

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
Dennis Prager

Minds, Open, Deceive

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Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 2, 1948

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