“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.”
Happiness
“There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.”
PowerAll Quotes by Dennis Prager
“The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.”
Religion“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”
Alone“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“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“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“For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.”
Music“For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.”
Family“If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.”
Religion“Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.”
Government“There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.”
Power“Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.”
Religion“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.”
Society“Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.”
Respect“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“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“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”
Family“It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.”
Home“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“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