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“The ideas that America should be a 'melting pot' or that all Americans should identify as American are now unutterable in educated company. Indeed, many college campuses do not have an American flag on their campus because some students regard it as 'offensive”

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representing imperialism and capitalism.
2010s, A Dark Time in America (2016)

“The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.”

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“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.”

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“[I]f you look at Europe and see a continent adrift, with no identity and no strong values beyond economic equality and possessing little capacity to identify evil, let alone a will to fight it, then you need to start fighting.”

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Dennis Prager. "America Founded To Be Free, Not Secular" https://www.creators.com/read/dennis-prager/01/07/america-founded-to-be-free-not-secular at creators.com, 3 January 2007.
2000s

“Israel remains and embattled democracy in the midst of authoritarian states, and the birthplace of the kibbutz to which tens of thousands of youth from around the world have turned for a living lesson in human equality.”

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Source: 2000s, Why the Jews?: The Reason for Antisemitism (2003), p. 195

“Nor is it enough to refrain from personally performing an injustice, for in order to be good one must seek out and rectify injustices performed by others.”

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Source: 1980s, The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism (1986), p. 43

Dennis Prager Quotes about homeland

“Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, the document that articulated the principle of human rights endowed by the Creator, thereby ultimately ensuring the end of slavery, and led to the establishment of the country that has served as the beacon of hope for people of every race and ethnicity. More black Africans have voluntarily emigrated to the United States to seek liberty and opportunity than came to America as slaves.”

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2010s, Why the Left Hates America (2015)

“So, then, what happened to the majority of Republicans? Why aren’t they conservative? The answer lies in America’s biggest – and scariest – problem: Most Americans no longer know what America stands for. For them, America has become just another country, a place located between Canada and Mexico. But America was founded to be an idea, not another country.”

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2010s, The Scariest Reason Trump Won (2016)

“The United States of America fought a horrific civil war that ended slavery. Yes, slavery was the reason for the Civil War. Every southern state that seceded from the United States announced that northern opposition to slavery and to its spread to new states was the primary reason for secession. In the meantime, America gradually became the least-xenophobic, least-racist nation in the world. In no country do people become accepted as full members of the society as do immigrants to America.”

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2010s, Why the Left Hates America (2015)

“Anti-Zionism is not criticism of Israel. It is a hatred of Israel — a hatred greater than that of any other country and a delegitimization of Zionism, the movement to reestablish the Jewish national home. Imagine someone who argued that the establishment of the Italian state — Italy — was illegitimate and who hated Italy more than any other country in the world yet claimed that he was in no way anti-Italian, as he had Italian friends and loved Italian culture. No one would believe such an absurdity.”

Dennis Prager

2010s, Why Most Jews Aren't Bothered By The Times' Anti-Semitic Cartoon (2019)

“Most Americans no longer know what America stands for. For them, America has become just another country, a place located between Canada and Mexico. But America was founded to be an idea, not another country.”

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2010s, The Scariest Reason Trump Won (2016)

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2010s, Why the Left Hates America (2015)

Dennis Prager Quotes

“The hostility is aroused largely because America and Israel represent democracy, equal rights for women, a higher quality of life, and a willingness to confront despotism”

Dennis Prager

Source: 2000s, Why the Jews?: The Reason for Antisemitism (2003), pp. 194–195
Context: It is small surprise that among tyrannical regimes and their defenders, America and Israel are so often identified as the same enemy. This is not merely a consequence of America's standing along behind Israel; the United States has aided various Arab countries very generously, and it has on some critical occasions backed Arab regimes, such as Nasser's Egypt in 1956 and Saudi Arabia in 1981, against Israel. The hostility is aroused largely because America and Israel represent democracy, equal rights for women, a higher quality of life, and a willingness to confront despotism. That is why the two non-Muslim countries that have suffered the heaviest lossest from Islamic suicide murderers are Israel and the United States.

Life , Women , Hostility , Democracy

“The foolishness of that comment [equating meat-eating to the Holocaust] is so deep, I can only ascribe it to higher education. You have to have gone to college to say something that stupid.”

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Dennis Prager as quoted in "P.E.T.A." http://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=hrmv6EPKfpg (1 April 2004), Penn & Teller's Bullshit!, Home Box Office: Regarding PETA's equating of the consumption of animals to the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust.
2000s

Stupidity , Education

“A person whose conduct consists of not hurting anyone is not good; such a person is merely not bad. To be a good person involves the active pursuit of good. It is not enough merely to refrain from hurting other human beings; one must intercede on their behalf.”

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Source: 1980s, The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism (1986), p. 43

Hurt , Personality

“The insufficiency of defining goodness as not hurting others is clearly demonstrated by the general assessment of the behavior of most Germans under the Nazis. According to this definition, most Germans during the Holocaust were good people, since they did not hurt anyone. Yet most of us do not consider such Germans good people, clearly indicating that we recognize the impossibility of defining a good person as one who does not hurt anyone.
You do not have to do something bad in order to do bad; you only have to do nothing.”

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Source: 1980s, The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism (1986), p. 43

People , Behavior , Hurt , Personality

“American values, or Americanism, refers to what I call the "American Trinity": "Liberty," "In God We Trust," and "E Pluribus Unum" ("Out of Many, One"), the three values that appear on all American coins.”

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Dennis Prager. Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph https://books.google.com/books?id=aAFSQWdwexEC, 2012.
2010s

God , Appearance

“I will not end on a happy note, because there isn't one. But neither do I despair. One doesn't fight only when one is optimistic. One fights because it is the right thing to do and because America remains, as Lincoln said, 'the last best hope of earth.”

Dennis Prager

2010s, A Dark Time in America (2016)

Hope , Fight , Despair , Happiness

“Conservatives view America as President Abraham Lincoln viewed it; as the 'Last Best Hope of Earth.”

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2010s, Why the Left Hates America (2015)

Hope

“[A] child smacking an adult across the face is not funny. It is, in fact, one of the last things society should tolerate.”

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Dennis Prager. "The Doritos Ad Was Not Funny" http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2010/02/16/the_doritos_ad_was_not_funny/page/full at townhall.com, 16 February 2010.
2010s

“The Left doesn't hate evil, it hates those who hate evil. On the Left there is a subliminal, subconscious deep understanding that they are inadequate to the job of fighting evil. That's why they get so passionate about trivia.”

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Dennis Prager, Speaking at the 20th Anniversary Gala of the Freedom Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pCAhVStBIY (2 February 2008), retrieved 26 August 2015
2000s

Hate , Understanding , Passion , Evil

“Of all the world's evils, child abuse may rank as the greatest.”

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Dennis Prager. "The Doritos Ad Was Not Funny" http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2010/02/16/the_doritos_ad_was_not_funny/page/full at townhall.com, 16 February 2010.
2010s

World , Evil

“The majority of Republicans are not conservative.”

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Source: 2010s, The Scariest Reason Trump Won (2016)

“[T]he further left one goes, the more negative the assessment of today's America and the America of the past.”

Dennis Prager

Source: 2010s, Why the Left Hates America (2015)

Past

“I am for no law to be passed to prevent Keith Ellison or anyone else from bringing any book he wants to his swearing-in, whether actual or ceremonial. But neither I nor tens of millions of other Americans will watch in silence as the Bible is replaced with another religious text for the first time since George Washington brought a Bible to his swearing-in”

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2000s

Silence , Books , Law , Time

“If you drop desires, you'll never have a Salk vaccine.”

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Dennis Prager: A Profile/David Margolis.com http://www.davidmargolis.com/article.php?id=41, 1992.
1990s

“I'm a passionate moderate.”

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1990s

Passion

“I'm pro-choice, but I believe that most abortions are immoral. I take the nuanced middle ground.”

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1990s

“The moment you meet a person of another religion whom you consider to be as good, as intelligent, and as religious as you are, you will never be the same.”

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How Can a Religious Person Tolerate Other Religions? https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V24N02_13.pdf, 1990.
1990s

Religion , Personality , Intelligence