Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.
The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme
The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.
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.
Happiness is a moral obligation
Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man
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.
Happiness is impossible without gratitude.
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.
The more passions you have the happier you'll be
The Libertarian Party is a shameful party
There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives
The easily embarrassed doesn't learn
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed
Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?
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.
Most evil comes from the belief that one is a victim, or one's group is a victim
I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures
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.
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.
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?
Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).
You know what I ask Jewish liberals? 'Why don't you preach what you practice?'
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