{"author":"Dennis Prager","author_id":"Dennis+Prager","total_quotes":70,"quotes":[{"text":"Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.","author":"Dennis Prager","tags":["life","gratitude","happy "],"id":523,"author_id":"Dennis+Prager"},{"text":"People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.","author":"Dennis Prager","tags":["good","people","good people "],"id":2093,"author_id":"Dennis+Prager"},{"text":"The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.","author":"Dennis Prager","tags":["time","design","universe "],"id":11118,"author_id":"Dennis+Prager"},{"text":"Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.","author":"Dennis Prager","tags":["history","society","child "],"id":12284,"author_id":"Dennis+Prager"},{"text":"Muslim religious leaders — from Al-Azhar in Cairo to local imams throughout the world - need to say exactly what Pope Francis said to the Catholic members of the Mafia: ‘Any Muslim who commits an act of terror — that is, deliberately murders civilians of any nationality or religion — goes to hell.","author":"Dennis Prager","tags":["terrorism"],"id":18214,"author_id":"Dennis+Prager"},{"text":"There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human being who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.","author":"Dennis Prager","tags":["human-nature"],"id":19181,"author_id":"Dennis+Prager"},{"text":"It is America (or Israel) at war, not just any war, that disturbs the Left. That is why there have been few demonstrations, and none of any size, against the mass murder of Sudan’s blacks; the genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia, or Congo; China’s crushing of Tibet; or Saddam Hussein’s wars against Iran, Kuwait, and Iraq’s own Kurds. Though there are always admirable individual exceptions, the Left has not been nearly as vocal about these large scale atrocities as it is about America’s wars. One additional reason is that, in general, atrocities committed by non-whites rarely interest the Left—and therefore ‘world opinion,’ which is essentially the same thing as Leftist opinion.","author":"Dennis Prager","tags":["america","israel","the-left"],"id":25749,"author_id":"Dennis+Prager"},{"text":"There is a morally flawed understanding of ‘peace.’ In much of the world (again, thanks to the left), peace has been so narrowly defined as to be morally irrelevant. It essentially means not having troops fighting in a foreign country. Thus, because the United States has troops fighting in Afghanistan and recently had troops fighting in Iraq, it is considered a ‘threat to peace.’ But Iran, with no troops on foreign soil, is not considered a threat to peace, even though it sustains terror movements, murders its own people, seeks to annihilate Israel, props up the mass murdering Syrian regime and is rapidly developing a nuclear weapon.","author":"Dennis Prager","tags":["peace"],"id":39840,"author_id":"Dennis+Prager"},{"text":"American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.","author":"Dennis Prager","tags":["american","world","greatest "],"id":51808,"author_id":"Dennis+Prager"},{"text":"To receive children’s love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the most powerful emotional experiences available.","author":"Dennis Prager","tags":["children","love","parenthood"],"id":52497,"author_id":"Dennis+Prager"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":70,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}