Dennis Prager Quotes

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Dennis Prager

Profession : Journalist

Birth : August 2, 1948

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

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The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

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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.

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One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

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The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.

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Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

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I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

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The 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.

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Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.

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The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

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Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.

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Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

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The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

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Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

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Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

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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.

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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.

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The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

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Rather 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.

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To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

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