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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When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists....

When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists....

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

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

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in...

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in...

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...

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance...

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance...

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...

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...

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that...

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that...

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...

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than...

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than...

I have been with many men approaching death; and not one has ever said, ï¿½I...

I have been with many men approaching death; and not one has ever said, ï¿½I...

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,...

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's...

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's...

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Faking the dates on your work so it doesn't look like you did it last...

Faking the dates on your work so it doesn't look like you did it last...