“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
“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.”
CourageAll Quotes by Dennis Prager
“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”
Alone“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“Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.”
Religion“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”
Family“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“There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.”
Power“One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.”
Education“People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.”
Strength“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“Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.”
Government“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 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“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“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“It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.”
Home“Socialism values equality more than liberty.”
Equality“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“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