Quote

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.

Dennis Prager

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dennis Prager
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 2
Author
Journalist
Radio Host
Radio Personality
Theologian
Writer
New York City
New York
Dennis Mark Prager
Reality
Deny
Human
Lack
Formative
Humans
Filled
Betrays
Self
Awareness
Betray
Many
Beings
Passions
Great
Taught
Denial
Believe
Passion
Nonsense
Years
Social
Anti

More quotes by Dennis Prager

Image
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
Image
My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities
Dennis Prager
Image
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.
Dennis Prager
Image
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
Image
It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent
Dennis Prager
Image
Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.
Dennis Prager
Image
I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled
Dennis Prager
Image
Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States
Dennis Prager
Image
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
Image
Leftist big-government policies have been disastrous for black America just as they were in the countries that most Hispanics emigrated from. But like the gambling addict who keeps gambling the more he loses, those addicted to government entitlements keep increasing the size of the government even as their situation worsens.
Dennis Prager
Image
Life is too short not to enjoy as much of it as you can
Dennis Prager
Image
How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things
Dennis Prager
Image
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.
Dennis Prager
Image
Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.
Dennis Prager
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults
Dennis Prager
Image
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
Image
If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.
Dennis Prager
Image
Big government squashes the human spirit
Dennis Prager