“People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.”
Strength
“One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.”
EducationAll Quotes by Dennis Prager
“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”
Family“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”
Alone“Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.”
Respect“If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.”
Religion“Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.”
Religion“One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.”
Education“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“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“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“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“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“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.”
Family“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“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“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“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“It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.”
Home“Socialism values equality more than liberty.”
Equality“For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.”
Family