Quotes by David Horowitz

About David Horowitz:

David Joel Horowitz is an American conservative writer based in Southern California. He has established a complex of institutions promoting his viewpoint: he is a founder and current president of the think tank the David Horowitz Freedom Center; editor of FrontPage Magazine, which is published by his Center; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. Horowitz founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom, purportedly to oppose political correctness and leftist orientation in academia. He has worked as a columnist for Salon magazine, whose Joan Walsh in 2001 described him as a "conservative provocateur." Southern Poverty Law Center has designated his news organization as a hate group in 2008.
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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

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.

David Horowitz

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

David Horowitz

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

What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.

David Horowitz

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

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

David Horowitz

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

David Horowitz

Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.

David Horowitz

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

David Horowitz

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

David Horowitz

Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.

David Horowitz

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

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

David Horowitz

In practice, socialism didn't 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.

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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

Author Bio

  • NameDavid Horowitz
  • DescriptionNeoconservative activist, writer
  • BornJanuary 10, 1939
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Author
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship