Dennis Mark Prager is an American conservative radio talk show host and writer. His initial political work concerned Soviet Jews who were unable to emigrate. He gradually began offering more and broader commentary on politics. His views generally align with social conservatism. He founded PragerU, an American non-profit organization that creates videos on various political, economic, and philosophical topics from a conservative perspective. These Dennis Prager quotes will motivate you.
Best Dennis Prager Quotes
- “If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “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.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.” ~ Dennis Prager
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“The biggest battle in life is with yourself” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Whatever the Left touches– the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion– it destroys or damages” ~ Dennis Prager
- “The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don’t get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “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.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.” ~ Dennis Prager
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“Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It’s what enables people to support the ‘underdog,’ even if the underdog is evil” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing” ~ Dennis Prager
- “There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that’s all you will hate” ~ Dennis Prager
- “When women criticize men it’s called feminism. When men criticize women it’s called misogyny” ~ Dennis Prager Quotes
- “All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.” ~ Dennis Prager
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“Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Prayer is not asking God to do something, it’s asking God to help YOU do something” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent – look at the high level of eighth-grade exams from early in the 20th century and you will weep. The more money the Left has gotten for education – America now spends more per student than any country in the world – the worse the academic results. And the Left has removed God and dress codes from schools – with socially disastrous results.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Without God and religion you don’t have moral truth, you have moral opinion” ~ Dennis Prager
- “By definition, the moment one crosses from center to left, one accepts more government control of people’s lives. Therefore, the further left society moves, the more there is government control over its citizens’ lives. It is astonishing that this obvious fact is not universally acknowledged and that the Left has somehow successfully portrayed itself as preoccupied with personal liberty.” ~ Dennis Prager
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“Lying to the Left is like water to fish” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God’s existence” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Socialism values equality more than liberty.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “What generations created, the Left destroys. There are few productive and noble institutions in America that the Left has not hurt or attempted to hurt. But while the Left destroys a great deal, it constructs almost nothing (outside of government agencies, laws, and lawsuits).” ~ Dennis Prager
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“Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “I can’t think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures” ~ Dennis Prager
- “America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “If your religion doesn’t teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.” ~ Dennis Prager
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“The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem” ~ Dennis Prager
- “The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.” ~ Dennis Prage
- “There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It’s unfair to the children, and it’s unfair to the other human being” ~ Dennis Prager
- “When watching ‘The Passion,’ Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and killed. For the same two hours, Jews watch Jews arrange the killing and torture of the Christians’ Savior.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “I don’t judge people by their theology, I judge them by their behavior” ~ Dennis Prager
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“The bigger the government, the greater the corruption” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Those who don’t hate evil hate those who do” ~ Dennis Prager
- “The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people” ~ Dennis Prager
- “With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country’s inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem – and largely a hindrance, not an asset.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions” ~ Dennis Prager
- “The further left you go, the meaner the spirit” ~ Dennis Prager
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“Courage is the rarest of all good traits” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Leftists’ meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful” ~ Dennis Prager
- “I am bored” generally means “I am boring.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others” ~ Dennis Prager
- “If you ask what’s best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat” ~ Dennis Prager
- “The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.” ~ Dennis Prager
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“Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable…Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years” ~ Dennis Prager
- “There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.” ~ Dennis Prager
