Dennis Prager ( 10 of 19 )
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's read more
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of read more
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of read more
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do read more
Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, read more
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 your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that read more
In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist.
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the read more
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.