Quotes from Dennis Prager

No matter how old you are, as long as a parent is alive, you are still a child. It is only after both die that you cease being a child. And then, all of a sudden, not only are you no longer a child, you are also next in line.

America was founded on a yearning for liberty, but people yearn for many things more than liberty.

We live in a world in which people can do unbelievably beautiful or unbelievably horrible things to other people. And if those horrible acts argue against the existence of God, then the beautiful acts must argue for God's existence.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Killing unbelievers has been part of — of course not all of — Islam since its inception. Within 10 years of Muhammad's death Muslims had conquered and violently converted whole peoples from Iran to Egypt and from Yemen to Syria. Muslims have offered conquered people death or conversion since that time.

First, instead of allowing the world's evil to prevent me from being happy—which would only give evil another victory—I have chosen to fight it to the best of my abilities.

That human nature is the greatest single obstacle to happiness is too rarely pointed out by those who speak or write about happiness. First, it strikes many people as too pessimistic. Second, citing our own nature as the greatest obstacle to happiness means that to be happy, we have to battle ourselves, and this is not something many people want to hear. Third, it undermines the common desire to attribute one's unhappiness to outside forces.

An Islamist is a Muslim who seeks to impose Shariah on others, including many 'cultural' or secular Muslims.

Good societies can survive people doing immoral things. But a good society can not survive if it calls immoral things moral.

A poor man who can make himself satisfied with his portion will be happier than a wealthy man who does not allow himself to be satisfied with his portion

Gratitude must be constantly fed (unlike resentment, which lives on naturally), and physical reminders are essential.

Only people can relate to JHWH, the animals, the stars they are with Elohim. We are with JHWH and Elohim. We are also with that God who creates the world., not just the personal God. Adonai (i.e., JHWH) is the God of the characteristic of mercy and compassion, and Elohim is the God whose characteristic is justice. And you need BOTH for the world to function.

But answering requests is not the primary role of God, and many people who believe it is will become disappointed and perhaps even alienated from God.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Most people believe that happiness and fun are virtually identical. Ask them, for example, to imagine a scene of happy people. Most people immediately conjure up a picture of people having fun (e.g. laughing, playing games, drinking at a party). Few people imagine a couple raising children, a couple married thirty years, someone reading a great book, or people doing any of the other things that really do bring happiness.

Those who do not fight real evil, fight statues. Statues don't fight back, and they're immobile. You're not going to get hurt smashing a statue. So this is their big battle. Real evil? The Left is AWOL. They didn't fight Communism, they fought anti-Communism. They don't fight Islamism, they fight Islamophobia. Made-up evils are safer.

Happiness is a moral obligation.

But the human being is a social creature. We don't merely want companionship, we need it to survive.

Very few of us can or will be famous. But all of us can be significant.

fun is temporary, happiness is ongoing. Or to put it another way, fun is during, happiness is during and after.

The human being is here to redeem the world.

monotheism was not a specifically Jewish revolution because it predated Abraham by several generations. The Jewish revolution was ethical monotheism

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word 'poverty' suggests.

Everything that leads to happiness involves pain.