"People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of."
-Dennis Prager
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"Although images of perfection in people's 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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"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."
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"Socialism values equality more than liberty."
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"Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's 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 person's family."
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"The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it."
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"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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