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Dennis Prager quotes

American Journalist August 2, 1948

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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? 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
Dennis Prager quote: "Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and..."
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. Dennis Prager
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
Dennis Prager quote: "There is little correlation between the circumstances of..."
There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are. Dennis Prager
Although images of perfection in people's 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. Dennis Prager
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager quote: "If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good..."
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager quote: "One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the..."
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager quote: "Wisdom begins with reverence for God."No God, no wisdom..."
Wisdom begins with reverence for God."No God, no wisdom (witness your local university). Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager quote: "Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while..."
Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. Dennis Prager
The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind. Dennis Prager
Many liberals believe in G-d; many conservatives do. What matters is not whether people believe in G-d but what text, if any, they believe to be divine. Those who believe that He has spoken through a given text will generally think differently from those who believe that no text is divine. Such people will usually get their values from other texts, or more likely from their conscience and heart. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager
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. Dennis Prager

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