Quotes from Dennis Prager

The Hebrew original does not say, 'Do not kill.' It says, 'Do not murder.' Both Hebrew and English have two words for taking a life — one is 'kill' (harag, in Hebrew) and the other is 'murder' (ratzach in Hebrew).

The next time you hear someone cite, 'Do not kill' when quoting the sixth commandment, gently but firmly explain that it actually says, 'Do not murder.

When it comes to fighting evil, the left is almost pacifist.

That's the great question: Who sees the miracles of daily life? And the answer is: Whoever chooses to see.

The best way to combat racism is to have blacks and whites relate to one another as individuals, rather than as racial abstractions.... It becomes much harder to make a nasty generalization about another group after you have spent time in the home of one if its members.

The Iraqi and Afghan wars have not 'ended.' Only America's involvement has 'ended.' … When a country leaves a war before achieving victory it is not called leaving. It is called defeat. … When the decent leave, the indecent win.

We live in a world filled with evil and moral confusion. There is only one way out: affirmation of a God Whose primary demand of us is that we treat our fellow human beings decently.

If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.

If we are to save a society in deep trouble, many changes are necessary. In terms of rights, two changes are mandatory. First, far more Americans need to ask what is good for society? before asking what is good for my group? Second, we need people to speak up on behalf of the one truly helpless group—children. For this to happen, people must start to think of children as human beings, not as property.

This point is often overlooked: Fear of God is a liberating emotion, freeing one from a disabling fear of evil, powerful people. This needs to be emphasized because many people see fear of God as onerous rather than liberating.

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed" (Genesis 9:6; emphasis added).

I love goodness and hate evil. My favorite verse in the Bible is 'Those of you who love God—hate evil' (Psalms 97:10).

With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need.

If there is no God, we know there is no ultimate meaning or purpose to life: that all existence—including, of course, our own—is the result of random chance.

To be an atheist is to believe the universe came about by itself, life came from non-life by itself, and consciousness came about by itself.

We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.

Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

Universities are the most anti-Israel mainstream institutions in America. And Westerns journalists nearly always use militant or gunman to describe Islamist terrorists. For Reuters, BBC, the Associated Press, CNN, and nearly all newspapers, it violates moral neutrality to label even a man attempting to smash a bomb-laden car into a nightclub a terrorist.

If there's a violent mob on campus, it isn't Ben Shapiro's fault - he's just someone coming to campus to talk about ideas. Mob violence is the mob's fault

Virtually every news source lists the greater number of Palestinians killed in Arab-Israeli wars in order to depict the Israelis as guilty (of 'disproportionate response'). Had similar reporting taken place during World War II, the Western Allies would have been deemed the villains since Germany and Japan lost far more civilians than America or Britain.

But the combination of modern hyper-parenting and left-leaning professors and administrators has allowed students to remake universities into large-scale editions of the island in Lord Of The Flies.

Like Whitney Houston, we believe the children are the future. But adults are in charge of the present, and we should start acting like it.

This secular Leftist denial of human free will is one of the reasons the Left recoils from labeling evil as evil, and (correctly) ascribes talk about good and evil to the religious.

According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.