Quotes by Dennis Prager

“Our 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?”

“Religion is love; in no case is it logic”

“I am bored generally means I am boring.”

“Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.”

“There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe by those who don’t believe.”

“Socialism values equality more than liberty.”

“Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.”

“My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them.”

“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”

“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”

“How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. Thats why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.”

“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion”

“Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.”

“If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.”

“If your religion doesnt teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.”

“More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.”

“Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.”

“The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.”

“Although images of perfection in peoples 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.”

“When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.”