Dennis Prager Quotes & Sayings

Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years — Dennis Prager

We humans are the culmination of God's efforts. The Torah is man centered under God centered. It's like TWIN pillars, TWIN centers. It's NOT JUST God centered. — Dennis Prager

Did God dictate every single word [in Torah]? I don't know! — Dennis Prager

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

Life is too short not to enjoy as much of it as you can — Dennis Prager

If we are to save a society in deep trouble, many changes are necessary. In terms of "rights," two changes are mandatory. First, far more Americans need to ask "what is good for society?" before asking "what is good for my group?" Second, we need people to speak up on behalf of the one truly helpless group - children. For this to happen, people must start to think of children as human beings, not as property. — Dennis Prager

The only happy people I know are people I don't know well. This observation is a one-sentence antidote to this obstacle to happiness. If all of us realized that the people with whom we negatively compare our happiness are plagued by pains and demons of which we know little or nothing, we would stop comparing our happiness with others'. Think of those people you know well, and you will realize the truth of Helen Telushkin's comment. Most likely you know how much unhappiness everyone you know well has experienced. And even with regard to these people whom you know well, chances are that you do not know with what inner demons - emotional, psychological, economic, sexual, or related to alcohol or drugs - they have to struggle. — Dennis Prager

No matter how old you are, as long as a parent is alive, you are still a child. It is only after both die that you cease being a child. And then, all of a sudden, not only are you no longer a child, you are also next in line. — Dennis Prager

A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly — Dennis Prager

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

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

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

God rested, we take over! — Dennis Prager

Nearly every African who has given the issue thought knows that America is not only not racist, it is the best place for an African to immigrate to. That is why more black Africans have come to America voluntarily than came to America as slaves - a statistic that virtually no college student is allowed to know. — Dennis Prager

The greatest evils since World War II have been Communism and, since the demise of Communism in the Soviet Union and most other Communist countries, violent Islam - or, as it often called, Islamism. Islamism is the belief that Sharia (Islamic law) must be imposed wherever possible on a society, beginning, of course, with Muslim-majority countries. These Islamists are, as the British historian Andrew Roberts has noted, the fourth incarnation of fascism - first there was fascism, then Nazism, then communism, and now Islamism. — Dennis Prager

Preoccupation with real evil is the greatest difference between right and left. The right was preoccupied with fighting Communism while the left (not liberals such as JFK, but the left) was preoccupied with fighting anti-Communists. The right today is preoccupied with fighting Islamism; the left is preoccupied with fighting 'Islamophobia — Dennis Prager

By definition, the moment one crosses from center to left, one accepts more government control of people's lives. Therefore, the further left society moves, the more there is government control over its citizens' lives. It is astonishing that this obvious fact is not universally acknowledged and that the Left has somehow successfully portrayed itself as preoccupied with personal liberty. — Dennis Prager

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

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show. — Dennis Prager

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner. — Dennis Prager

The love of freedom is actually an aberration. — Dennis Prager

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen — Dennis Prager

The left is far more concerned with attacking America - its alleged racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia and economic inequality - than with fighting Islamism. — Dennis Prager

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views. — Dennis Prager

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism. — Dennis Prager

The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has rendered vast numbers of male unnecessary to females, who have looked to the state to support them and their children (and the more children, the more state support) rather than to husbands. In effect, these women took the state as their husband. — Dennis Prager

Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea — Dennis Prager

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

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. — Dennis Prager

People have too often valued "proper" religious beliefs more than proper moral behavior, and even slaughtered others for not having the right religious beliefs. This is a common occurrence even in our time. — Dennis Prager

Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you — Dennis Prager

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity — Dennis Prager

Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc — Dennis Prager

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

Hillary Clinton wanted to hide what she was doing so that there was no trail — Dennis Prager

The essential message of Judaism and Christianity is that life is not an end in itself. Life is to be a means - to goodness, to sanctity, and to God. The belief in life as an end in itself is a form of idolatry. — Dennis Prager

Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood — Dennis Prager

The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women. — Dennis Prager

Self-control is the only possible road to character development — Dennis Prager

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way — Dennis Prager

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it — Dennis Prager

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of "racial tensions" is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel. — Dennis Prager

The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old. — Dennis Prager

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government? — Dennis Prager

The entire European Union is a left-wing dream — Dennis Prager

To receive children's love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the
most powerful emotional experiences available. — Dennis Prager

The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced. — Dennis Prager

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. — Dennis Prager

There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe by those who don?t believe. — Dennis Prager

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

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. — Dennis Prager

What generations created, the Left destroys. There are few productive and noble institutions in America that the Left has not hurt or attempted to hurt. But while the Left destroys a great deal, it constructs almost nothing (outside of government agencies, laws, and lawsuits). — Dennis Prager

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness — Dennis Prager

As regards pacifism, the belief that it is always wrong to kill a human being, again, anyone is free to hold this position, as immoral as it may be. And what other word than "immoral" can one use to describe forbidding the killing of someone who is in the process of murdering innocent men, women, and children, in, let's say, a movie theater or a school? But it is dishonest to cite the commandment against murder to justify pacifism. There is moral killing - most obviously when done in self-defense against an aggressor - and there is immoral killing. And the word for that is murder. — Dennis Prager

Children are not owned by parents. They have an inalienable right to come into this world to a loving mother and father who are married to each other. And they have an inalienable right to be protected from all who would hurt them. — Dennis Prager

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude — Dennis Prager

Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness — Dennis Prager

The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem — Dennis Prager

In theory, multiculturalism is something we should all celebrate; unfortunately, in practice, multiculturalism means multi-morality ... The only antidote to such nihilistic thinking is ethical monotheism, the belief in one universal code of ethics. Differing cultures glorify humanity, but differing moralities destroy it. We must teach what Professor Viktor Frankl concluded after surviving Auschwitz: There are only two races of human beings, the decent and the indecent. That is how the world is divided: not between rich and poor, men and women, North and South, black and white, the powerful and the powerless, or any other nonmoral division that too many contemporary liberals have been advocating. — Dennis Prager

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. — Dennis Prager

That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions — Dennis Prager

The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another. If the state will take care of me and my neighbors, why should I? This is why Western Europeans, people who have lived in welfare states far longer than Americans have, give less to charity and volunteer less time to others than do Americans of the same socioeconomic status. — Dennis Prager

Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing — Dennis Prager

An unhappy life is a life not lived. — Dennis Prager

If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate. — Dennis Prager

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior — Dennis Prager

Lies and victimhood make evil possible — Dennis Prager

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned. — Dennis Prager

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world — Dennis Prager

There is a morally flawed understanding of 'peace.' In much of the world (again, thanks to the left), peace has been so narrowly defined as to be morally irrelevant. It essentially means not having troops fighting in a foreign country. Thus, because the United States has troops fighting in Afghanistan and recently had troops fighting in Iraq, it is considered a 'threat to peace.' But Iran, with no troops on foreign soil, is not considered a threat to peace, even though it sustains terror movements, murders its own people, seeks to annihilate Israel, props up the mass murdering Syrian regime and is rapidly developing a nuclear weapon. — Dennis Prager

Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine. — Dennis Prager

Humility is a fantastic trait and is one of the most important things we can have — Dennis Prager

God created all the animals on this day and now said to them: "let us make man on our image". My friends, nothing that I could ever say to people is as important as this understanding of the human being, we are created in God's image and we are created in animal's image. This is one of the deepest Jewish understandings of the human being .. because the understanding that I am part animal and part God keeps me saying: I know what I need to aspire to, God, but I also know that I have to make peace with the fact that I am also an animal .. I am half animal .. animals are not created in anybody's image, WE ARE in their image and God's image. — Dennis Prager

Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted. — Dennis Prager

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. — Dennis Prager

The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that — Dennis Prager

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism
because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives — Dennis Prager

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

Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable ... Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done ... — Dennis Prager

Those who don't fight evil hate those who do; and those who don't fight real evils make up little evils — Dennis Prager

If you build a society in which children honor their parents, your society will long survive. And the corollary is: A society in which children do not honor their parents is doomed to self-destruction. — Dennis Prager

Children are God's or nature's practical joke on couples - that which is produced by passion then proceeds to nearly kill it. — Dennis Prager

Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life. — Dennis Prager

Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it? — Dennis Prager

The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better — Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation. — Dennis Prager

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

The worldview of the Left is a battle between rich and poor — Dennis Prager

Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps? — Dennis Prager

Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world. — Dennis Prager

The United States of America is a flawed society. As it comprises human beings, it must be flawed. But in terms of the goodness achieved inside its borders and spread elsewhere in the world, it has been the finest country that ever existed. If you were to measure the moral gulf between America and those who despise it, the divide would have to be calculated in light-years. — Dennis Prager

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. — Dennis Prager

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world. — Dennis Prager

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

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. — Dennis Prager

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. — Dennis Prager

If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities. — Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous. — Dennis Prager

The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian. — Dennis Prager

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion. — Dennis Prager