“It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.”
Home
“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.”
SocietyAll Quotes by Dennis Prager
“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.”
Death“If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.”
Religion“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.”
Age“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.”
Respect“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”
Family“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.”
Freedom“Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.”
Happiness“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.”
Courage“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.”
War“One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.”
Education“How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.”
Society“Socialism values equality more than liberty.”
Equality“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.”
Happiness“For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.”
Family“Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.”
Respect“People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.”
Strength“Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.”
Government“Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.”
Home“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”
Alone