Quote by Dennis Prager
Although images of perfection in peoples personal lives can cause

Although images of perfection in peoples personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies – utopian images – can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. – Dennis Prager

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Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderers life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered persons family. – Dennis Prager

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Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be. – Dennis Prager

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For all of higher civilizations recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. – Dennis Prager

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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. – Robert Orben

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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. – V. S. Naipaul

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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency – money – the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. – James Buchan

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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees. – Naguib Mahfouz

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