01c. 1948 ADHappiness 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.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
02c. 1948 ADPeople confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
04c. 1948 ADOur scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?Dennis Prager / quote ↗
05c. 1948 ADEvery age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
06c. 1948 ADTo 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.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
07c. 1948 ADOpponents 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.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
08c. 1948 ADMost women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
09c. 1948 ADThe 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.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
10c. 1948 ADIf your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
11c. 1948 ADGoodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
12c. 1948 ADRather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
14c. 1948 ADThe evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
15c. 1948 ADOf all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
16c. 1948 ADI have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
17c. 1948 ADSociety may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
18c. 1948 ADProponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
19c. 1948 ADEven non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
20c. 1948 ADAmerican troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
21c. 1948 ADIt is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
22c. 1948 ADUnhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.Dennis Prager / quote ↗
