I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed Dennis Prager More Quotes by Dennis Prager More Quotes From Dennis Prager Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life. Dennis Prager views people thinking To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith Dennis Prager murder said believe 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 worry civilization years 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 Happiness is a moral obligation Dennis Prager moral-obligation obligation moral The bigger the government, the greater the corruption Dennis Prager bigger corruption government 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 liberty america thinking All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy. Dennis Prager ungrateful-people adversity happiness The Left neither cares about prosperity nor jobs. It cares about equality Dennis Prager prosperity care jobs Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea Dennis Prager responsibility wings ideas The Obama administration will never say 'radical Islam.' Never. Dennis Prager radical-islam islam administration When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich. Dennis Prager confused wall class Just about every generation has some horrific evil that it must fight. For the Democratic Party today that evil is carbon dioxide emissions. For the rest of us, it is an ideology that teaches that its deity is sanctified by the blood of innocents. Dennis Prager party fighting blood There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims. Dennis Prager insult islam cartoon Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude Dennis Prager feelings attitude The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them. Dennis Prager income government giving 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 emotional religious christian Those who don't fight evil hate those who do; and those who don't fight real evils make up little evils Dennis Prager hate fighting real The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate Dennis Prager difficult powerful sorry 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 poverty evil class