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

Other quotes by Dennis Prager

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

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

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If your religion doesnt teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. – Dennis Prager

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In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. – Ethan Hawke

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The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. – Thom Mayne

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We have to challenge the whole idea that its acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and dont have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives. – Iain Duncan Smith

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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy? – Albert Einstein

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