Dennis Prager Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Socialism values equality more than liberty.

  Dennis Prager

  Equality, Eugenics, Liberty

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Civilization, America, Political

  "The More Given, the Less Earned". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 21, 2009.

• 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

  Roots, Hatred, Done

• Many liberals believe in God; many conservatives do. What matters is not whether people believe in God 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

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

• Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

  Dennis Prager

  Class, Evil, Poverty

• For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Issues, Generations

  "The American Trinity" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 13, 2012.

• 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

  Rights, Law, America

  "A Response to My Many Critics - And a Solution" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. ecember 05, 2006.

• The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.

  Dennis Prager

  Thinking, Years, People

• 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

  Believe, People, Progressive

• Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Values

• The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Love You, Mind

  "Dennis Prager: Americanism Is The Best Hope". Interview with Dave Gordon, www.breitbart.com. June 03, 2012.

• The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

  Dennis Prager

  Behavior, Notion, Humans

• Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Play, Parent

• Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.

  Dennis Prager

  Thinking, America, Liberty

• Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Religious, Emotional

  "Where Do Jews and Christians on the Left Get Their Values?". townhall.com. March 30, 2010.

• The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

  Dennis Prager

  Behavior, Explanation, Humans

• 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

  Country, Biblical, Animal

• Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

  Dennis Prager

  People, American Values, Value Systems

• 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

  Christian, Animal, Two

• America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, Islamic, America

• 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

  America, People, Conservative

• 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

  Expression, Numbers, Age

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