“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
“Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.”
RespectAll Quotes by Dennis Prager
“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“It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.”
Home“Socialism values equality more than liberty.”
Equality“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“If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.”
Religion“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“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“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“Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.”
Government“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“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”
Alone“There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.”
Power“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“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“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”
Family“Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.”
Religion“For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.”
Family“One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.”
Education