Dennis Prager

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

If _x000D_ we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance _x000D_ instead _x000D_ of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of _x000D_ evil.

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

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?

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?

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

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 are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.