Prager Quotes & Sayings

Climate change is the mother of all hysterias of the Left — Dennis Prager

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

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

Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples. — Dennis Prager

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left. — Dennis Prager

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. — Dennis Prager

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

Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being the President of the United States; she has done nothing important that is good — Dennis Prager

A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others — Dennis Prager

There is no happiness that isn't earned — 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

American is deteriorating because it is becoming like other countries — Dennis Prager

God rested, we take over! — Dennis Prager

Those who do not confront evil resent those who do. — Dennis Prager

Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don't even have that. — Dennis Prager

We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love. — Joshua Prager

There is nothing about a Ph.D. that guarantees a person will be wiser, kinder, or more ethical than someone with only a high school education. — 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

The biggest battle in life is with yourself — Dennis Prager

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right — Dennis Prager

When it comes to fighting evil, the left is almost pacifist. — Dennis Prager

First tell the truth, then give your opinion. — Dennis Prager

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate — Dennis Prager

If you do not share the universities' values, it could be a big mistake to send your children to college before they are intellectually and morally prepared for the indoctrination-rather-than-education they will receive there. Therefore, prepare them morally and intellectually and, if possible, do not send them to college right after high school. Let them work for a year, or perhaps travel (for example, given the antipathy to Israel on campuses, a trip to Israel would be both morally clarifying and maturing). The younger the student, the less life experience and maturity they have, the more they are likely to embrace the rejection of your values. — Dennis Prager

For the Left, politics is the way to transform the world; for conservatives, politics is primarily the way to stop the Left from doing so. The former is much more fulfilling than the latter. — Dennis Prager

We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended. — Dennis Prager

Freedom comes from moral self-control. There is no other way to achieve it. — Dennis Prager

It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent — Dennis Prager

It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul. — Joshua Prager

The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks. — Dennis Prager

There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I. — Dennis Prager

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

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything — Dennis Prager

Lies and victimhood make evil possible — Dennis Prager

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in. — Dennis Prager

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises. — Dennis Prager

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything. — Dennis Prager

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

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. — Dennis Prager

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north. — Dennis Prager

No significant American group hates like the left does. If you differ with them - from global warming, to race relations, to same-sex marriage, to the extent of rape on college campuses - they will humiliate, defame, libel and try to economically crush you. — Dennis Prager

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

The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them. — Dennis Prager

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. — Dennis Prager

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

I am looking for the disconnected connection — Alex Prager

This predilection of bright women to twist themselves into bizarre submissive postures from which only humor can release them is something die-hard feminists will never address. But Iris and I were in agreement: there is nothing that warms a smart girl's heart like the smile on the face of a sadist. — Emily Prager

You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours. — Dennis Prager

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

We live in a world filled with evil and moral confusion. There is only one way out: affirmation of a God Whose primary demand of us is that we treat our fellow human beings decently. Faith in any god who makes any other primary demand will ultimately fail to solve the problem of evil. And any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail. — Dennis Prager

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. — Dennis Prager

The Obama administration will never say 'radical Islam.' Never. — Dennis Prager

The Left corrupts everything it touches — Dennis Prager

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

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate. — Dennis Prager

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. — Dennis Prager

A world without God to give people faith that all their suffering is not meaningless is a nightmare. A world without religion means a world without any systematic way of ennobling people. A world without countries is a world without the United States of America, and it is a world governed by the amoral United Nations, where mass murderers sit on "human rights" councils. A world without heaven or hell is a world without any ultimate justice, where torturers and their victims have identical fates. A world without possessions is a world in which some enormous state possesses everything, and the individual is reduced to the status of a well-fed serf. Liberals frequently criticize conservatives for fearing change. What we fear is transforming that which is already good. The moral record of humanity does not fill us with optimism about "fundamentally transforming" something as rare as America. Evil is normal. America is not. — Dennis Prager

What does it mean to "carry" or to "misuse" God's name? It means committing evil in God's name. And that God will not forgive. Why not? When an irreligious person commits evil, it doesn't bring God and religion into disrepute. But when religious people commit evil, especially in God's name, they are not only committing evil, they are doing terrible damage to the name of God. — Dennis Prager

The Left needs causes like fish need water — Dennis Prager

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception. — 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

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives — 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 more passions you have the happier you'll be — Dennis Prager

It does say something about a society when those who sue physicians and hospitals make as much or more money than those who heal disease. It says something about a society when it glorifies and rewards those who litigate while it demonizes and punishes those who produce the drugs and devices that keep it citizens alive and well. — Dennis Prager

The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people. — Dennis Prager

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

There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims. — Dennis Prager

The best way to combat racism is to have blacks and whites relate to one another as individuals, rather than as racial abstractions ... It becomes much harder to make a nasty generalization about another group after you have spent time in the home of one if its members. — Dennis Prager

I am part animal and part God. — Dennis Prager

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time — Dennis Prager

I dream of a day when governments and societies no longer value blood and race over children, and the millions of unwanted children are freed at birth for adoption by people of every race. Aside from all its other benefits, massive adoption is the best assurance that people will never again slaughter the "other." When members of every family are one of those "others," such hatreds will become, finally, impossible. — Dennis Prager

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith. — Dennis Prager

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. — Dennis Prager

What makes most of us who we are most of all is...how we respond to what happens to us. — Joshua Prager

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

Liberalism means well, but it destroys — 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

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one — 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

If pain were water, the world would drown — Dennis Prager

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

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations. — Dennis Prager

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something — Dennis Prager

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn — Dennis Prager

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

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

Second, honoring parents is how nearly all of us come to recognize that there is a moral authority above us to whom we are morally accountable. — Dennis Prager

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

For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them. — Dennis Prager

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write — Dennis Prager

Only people can relate to JHWH, the animals, the stars they are with Elohim. We are with JHWH and Elohim. We are also with that God who creates the world., not just the personal God. Adonai (i.e., JHWH) is the God of the characteristic of mercy and compassion, and Elohim is the God whose characteristic is justice. And you need BOTH for the world to function. — Dennis Prager

I like to use really basic or classic colors, things that people have seen over and over and over again. Primary colors, at least in photography, have been around a lot longer than neon colors and really vibrant purples, hot pinks. Red, blue, yellow, orange - because of Kodachrome and the way that things were produced I think that those colors stood out more than any others. — Alex Prager

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil — Dennis Prager

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

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. — Dennis Prager

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith. — Dennis Prager

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