Dennis Prager Quotes

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Dennis Prager

Profession : Journalist

Birth : August 2, 1948

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

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Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

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That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

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Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

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The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

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The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

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The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

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For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

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To 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.

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In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

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Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

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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.

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But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

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I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

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Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

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It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being.

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To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

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No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

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Most blacks want school vouchers, but most liberals vehemently oppose them. Why? Because what is good for teachers' unions is of more importance to the Left than what is good for blacks. Who, then, is racist? By their own admission, and by the policies they pursue, the answer is the people who call themselves progressive.

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In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

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