Laura Schlessinger Quotes

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

I'm making an announcement: Not one penny will I give to AIDS anything as long as [public sex is allowed in gay bathhouses]. Not cent one. It's a preventable disease. If you don't want to prevent it, I don't want to pay for it.

It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.

I spent two yours of my life being anorexic, but I would never dream of throwing up - my God!

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

We all do stupid things.

Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

There is no movement without our own resistance.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

You'd be amazed at how much power women have over men - and the basic control is nagging ... Men are very simple creatures, like puppies.

Other people do not owe me their availability.

We all have to make choices in life.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

There's no reason to yell at anybody.

Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.

You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.

You don't go by your feelings. You do what is right.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

I really am a woman at peace.

If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.

There's no point dating a guy who can't support a family.

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink.

That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.

I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.

When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.

Sympathy is a better argument than criticism.

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.

Go do the right thing.

I'm very active, wild woman.

There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.

You have the power. You are the magic wand.

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who fails to meet his wife's needs is a pig.)

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!

Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.

When you devote your life to "finding yourself," you probably won't.

I'm not cynical.

I haven't yelled at anybody today. It's been a slow day.

Don't talk over me, don't argue with me, just listen.

My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.

As women go, so goes civilization.

Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

I know I'm right, and I know you're wrong.

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.

Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

There are so many ways to talk with the people who appreciate my help.

It's not the worst thing in the world to look different from everyone else.

Boys are slobs ... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

Never miss an opportunity to look like a nice guy.

The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others.

Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.

When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money,
his home, and his dog.

Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.

Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

Sometimes guys avoid things they don't know how to do well.

Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up?

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

Emotions have no I.Q.

Everyone has the right to go on a vacation without kids if they want.

Home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.

Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.

Women who don't think they can get a neat guy hang onto losers because something is better than nothing.

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.

Nothing is irresistible. There is no feeling that is irresistible.

Life is a unique opportunity to explore, create, and give.

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.

The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.

I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

If you take on the martyr/entitlement role, two things are definitely going to happen: you'll be a lot less happier with your life, and you will have a husband not exactly wanting to come home to you.

When you're around people, act like you like them.

I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry.

Crap happens in everybody's life all of the time, and the quality of that person is more based on how they behave under duress than when there's nothing bad going down.

You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan; where do you want to put your efforts? I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.