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…

Quote by Dennis Prager

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Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you...

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you...

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should...

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should...

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether...

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether...

When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions....

When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions....

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful...

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful...

There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of...

There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of...

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be...

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be...

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income,...

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income,...

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should...

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should...

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you...

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you...

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about...

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about...

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is...

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is...

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is...

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is...

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether...

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether...

My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining...

My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining...

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe...

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe...

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they...

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they...

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery...

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery...

If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above...

If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above...