Dennis Prager Quotes

born 1948 United States

Dennis Mark Prager (born 2 August 1948) is an American radio talk show host, syndicated columnist, conservative author, and public speaker. He founded Prager University.

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Happiness is a battle to be waged and not a feeling to be awaited.

Happiness is a Serious Problem (1998)

If you drop desires, you'll never have a Salk vaccine.

Women are used by feminists; blacks are used by Democrats; workers are used by Communists.

Of all the world's evils, child abuse may rank as the greatest.

America gradually became the least-xenophobic, least-racist nation in the world. In no country do people become accepted as full members of the society as do immigrants to America.

A person whose conduct consists of not hurting anyone is not good; such a person is merely not bad. To be a good person involves the active pursuit of good. It is not enough merely to refrain from hurting other human beings; one must intercede on their behalf.

The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism (1986)

Nor is it enough to refrain from personally performing an injustice, for in order to be good one must seek out and rectify injustices performed by others.

The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism (1986)

The moment you meet a person of another religion whom you consider to be as good, as intelligent, and as religious as you are, you will never be the same.

The believer in God has to account for one thing, the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist, however, has to account for the existence of everything else.

paraphrasing Milton Steinberg in a debate (2008)

One doesn't fight only when one is optimistic. One fights because it is the right thing to do.

[T]he further left one goes, the more negative the assessment of today's America and the America of the past.

Why the Left Hates America (2015)

Truth is a liberal value, and it is a conservative value, but it is not a leftist value.

Why Most Jews Aren't Bothered By The Times' Anti-Semitic Cartoon (2019)

The foolishness of that comment [equating meat-eating to the Holocaust] is so deep, I can only ascribe it to higher education. You have to have gone to college to say something that stupid.

Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don’t even have that.

Happiness is a Serious Problem:A Human Nature Repair Manual (1998)

You can allow any real—or merely perceived—flaw to diminish your happiness.

Happiness is a Serious Problem:A Human Nature Repair Manual (1998)

The only people who have no bad tendencies are dead.

Happiness is a Serious Problem:A Human Nature Repair Manual (1998)

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.

Happiness is a Serious Problem:A Human Nature Repair Manual (1998)

The majority of Republicans are not conservative.

The Scariest Reason Trump Won (2016)

Conservatives view America as President Abraham Lincoln viewed it; as the 'Last Best Hope of Earth.'

Why the Left Hates America (2015)

Affluence + secularism = cowardice.
Affluence + boredom = Leftism.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dennis Prager (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.