110+ Dennis Prager Quotes On Happiness, Informative And Thoughtful

Dennis Prager is an American conservative radio talk show host, author, columnist, and public speaker. He is the host of The Dennis Prager Show, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show, and is a religious and social commentator. Prager is a strong advocate of Judeo-Christian values and is known for his views on religion, politics, and morality. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Dennis Prager on happiness, informative, thoughtful.

Top 10 Dennis Prager Quotes

1. Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
2. 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.
3. Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
4. Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
5. The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind
6. Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing
7. Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.
8. Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.
9. Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something
10. Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

Dennis Prager Short Quotes

• Utopian movements produce dystopias.
• Socialism values equality more than liberty.
• More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
• A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others
• Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea
• The Libertarian Party is a shameful party
• When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny
• Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness
• Repetition is the mother of pedagogy
• The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

Dennis Prager Quotes About Happiness

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

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

Happiness is a moral obligation — Dennis Prager

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. — Dennis Prager

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. — Dennis Prager

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. — Dennis Prager

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women? — Dennis Prager

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are. — Dennis Prager

Not everyone wants to be happy — Dennis Prager

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. — Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager Quotes About Evil

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

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. — Dennis Prager

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil — Dennis Prager

Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood — Dennis Prager

Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents. — Dennis Prager

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. — Dennis Prager

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. — Dennis Prager

We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions — Dennis Prager

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. — Dennis Prager

As a result of the Left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European countries rely on America to fight the world's evil, and even to defend them — Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager Quotes About People

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. — Dennis Prager

Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics. — Dennis Prager

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people — Dennis Prager

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of. — Dennis Prager

There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not. — Dennis Prager

Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence — Dennis Prager

Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded. — Dennis Prager

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. — Dennis Prager

The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people. — Dennis Prager

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

Dennis Prager Quotes About Society

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. — Dennis Prager

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society? — Dennis Prager

Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme. — Dennis Prager

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

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent. — Dennis Prager

I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not. — Dennis Prager

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations. — Dennis Prager

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. — Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager Quotes About Unhappiness

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

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get. — Dennis Prager

An unhappy life is a life not lived. — Dennis Prager

If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful — Dennis Prager

The more we complain, the more unhappy we get — Dennis Prager

Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child. — Dennis Prager

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. — Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager Quotes About World

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world. — Dennis Prager

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life — Dennis Prager

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage — Dennis Prager

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north. — Dennis Prager

Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps? — Dennis Prager

There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world. — Dennis Prager

Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse. — Dennis Prager

Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world. — Dennis Prager

If pain were water, the world would drown — Dennis Prager

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world — Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager Famous Quotes And Sayings

There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims. — Dennis Prager

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion. — Dennis Prager

Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples. — Dennis Prager

The feminist movement has far more anger for men than it has love for women. — Dennis Prager

With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset. — Dennis Prager

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists — Dennis Prager

For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price. — Dennis Prager

Some of us worry about a resurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization; some of us worry about global warming. In twenty years' time, one of us will be proved right . . . — Dennis Prager

Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' - — Dennis Prager

It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination ' — Dennis Prager

I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, “You allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience? — Dennis Prager

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation. — Dennis Prager

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

Secularism produces a bored soul — 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? — Dennis Prager

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one. — Dennis Prager

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion — Dennis Prager

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. — Dennis Prager

What generations created, the Left destroys. There are few productive and noble institutions in America that the Left has not hurt or attempted to hurt. But while the Left destroys a great deal, it constructs almost nothing (outside of government agencies, laws, and lawsuits). — Dennis Prager

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate. — Dennis Prager

I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. 'Give me more than half of your honestly earned money or you will be arrested' is legalized thievery. — Dennis Prager

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? — Dennis Prager

America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God. — Dennis Prager

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools. — Dennis Prager

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another. — Dennis Prager

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. — Dennis Prager

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

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

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

Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion. — Dennis Prager

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith. — 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

Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one — Dennis Prager

Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion — Dennis Prager

The next time your daughter asks, 'Where are all the men?' Tell them that the Democratic party and its policies got rid of them' — Dennis Prager

A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly — Dennis Prager

Self-control is the only possible road to character development — Dennis Prager

I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed? — Dennis Prager

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea — Dennis Prager

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. — Dennis Prager

Climate change is the mother of all hysterias of the Left — Dennis Prager

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity — Dennis Prager

Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom — Dennis Prager

Just listen to Chris Matthews on any given day and you will see what's acceptable on the Left — Dennis Prager

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart — Dennis Prager

Does the unborn human fetus have at any point the right to live? — Dennis Prager

Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger — Dennis Prager

You owe others a happy disposition — Dennis Prager

The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke. — Dennis Prager

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives — Dennis Prager

American is deteriorating because it is becoming like other countries — Dennis Prager

Big government squashes the human spirit — Dennis Prager

Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done. — Dennis Prager

In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man. — Dennis Prager

I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health. — Dennis Prager

It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent — Dennis Prager

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex. — Dennis Prager

Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see composition and lighting and do not see their civilization being pissed upon, we are in trouble. — Dennis Prager

Life Lessons by Dennis Prager

1. Dennis Prager teaches that life is more meaningful when we live according to a moral code and strive to make the world a better place.
2. He emphasizes the importance of understanding different perspectives and engaging in civil discourse to bridge gaps between people.
3. Prager also encourages us to be open to learning and growing, and to take responsibility for our own happiness.