David Horowitz famous quotes

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.
-- David Horowitz

#Art #Cuba #Doctrine

Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all.
-- David Horowitz

#Passion #Perfect #Roller Coaster

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.
-- David Horowitz

#Keys #Careers #Library

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.
-- David Horowitz

#What Matters #Matter #Action

It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.
-- David Horowitz

#America #Police #Agents

In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
-- David Horowitz

#Ignorance #Practice #Psychology

We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
-- David Horowitz

#Religious #Trust No One #Doctors

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.
-- David Horowitz

#America #People #Effort

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.
-- David Horowitz

#Want

Politics is about winning. If you don?t win, you don?t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.
-- David Horowitz

#Winning #Practice #Battle

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.
-- David Horowitz

#Powerful #Lying #Wish

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.
-- David Horowitz

#Cost #Matter #Morality

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
-- David Horowitz

#School #Thinking #Students

The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.
-- David Horowitz

#Iraq #Middle East #Lebanon

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
-- David Horowitz

#Birthday #Kings #Holiday

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.
-- David Horowitz

#Love #Dream #Stars

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
-- David Horowitz

#Party #Political #Indoctrination

The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?
-- David Horowitz

#Character #Adversity #Class

Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.
-- David Horowitz

#Running #Dream #Party

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.
-- David Horowitz

#Years #Decision #Foundation

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.
-- David Horowitz

#Rights #Views #Political

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.
-- David Horowitz

#Names #People #Mouths

The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to frustrate the schemes of social redeemers and others convinced of their own invincible virtue.
-- David Horowitz

#Passion #Political #Healthy

According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system that leads to mass misery, mass impoverishment, and human slaughter. That's what it means. Yet almost half of the young think it's benign.
-- David Horowitz

#Mean #Thinking #Views

My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party.
-- David Horowitz

#Jobs #Party #America

For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism and oppression - for which the Western democracies, including Israel were always ultimately to blame.
-- David Horowitz

#Men #Israel #Racism

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.
-- David Horowitz

#Ideas #Viewpoints #Politics

My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I just want it to be perfect, which it will be when it becomes a Soviet Communist state'. When the left called for 'liberation' what it really wanted was to erase the human slate and begin again. Like everybody else, I see things that need to be improved. I just am mindful of the fact that they can be made a lot worse.
-- David Horowitz

#War #America #Perfect

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.
-- David Horowitz

#Israel #America #Canaries

In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.
-- David Horowitz

#Art #Responsibility #Easy

If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?
-- David Horowitz

#America #Black #Exodus

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.
-- David Horowitz

#Issues #Students #Brainwashed