Dennis Prager Quotes

Nothing enables people to do evil as much as does a sense of victimhood

Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

The anointed are helped to make yet another group feel like victims and to regard the anointed as their rescuers.

When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

Everybody is not a victim.

So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victimhood. Stowed away inside you like parasites, they deplete you of your God-given life force and separate you from your inherent worth, your joy, and the love in your heart.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Malice hath a strong memory.

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents.

Evil is wrought by want of thought

Resentment is the poison we drink, hoping it will hurt others.

I would like to share with you my plan to destroy America…. I would invest in ethnic identity and victimology. I would get them to think that their lack of success was only the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims.

If you're unhappy with your circumstances, then change them. Don't blame the government or your boss or the guy down the street who's better looking than you (exceptions include Hugh Jackman and George Clooney). Just take some Pepto-Bismol and be a man (or woman, for all of you bullish feminists).

Because of the mainstreaming of academia's victimhood culture, we are now in a place where we place more value on being a victim than on being heroic, charitable, or even kind.