Top 100 David Horowitz Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don’t like to have another point of view in the room that they don’t squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling.”

— David Horowitz

2. “An SDS radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” In other words the cause – whether inner city blacks or women – is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of power to make the revolution.”

— David Horowitz

3. “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”

— David Horowitz

4. “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

5. “Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.”

— David Horowitz

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

— David Horowitz

7. “The lesson I had learned for my pain turned out to be modest and simple: the best intentions can lead to the worst results. I had believed in the left because of the good it had promised. Now I learned to judge it by the evil it had done.”

— David Horowitz

8. “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

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

— David Horowitz

10. “Political correctness is actually a term coined by the Chinese dictator and mass murderer Mao Zedong. By “politically correct,” Mao meant adhering to the official position of the Communist Party, which the comrades referred to as “the party line.”

— David Horowitz

11. “If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.”

— David Horowitz

12. “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

13. “As the Khmer Rouge were about to take over, Noam Chomsky wrote that their advent heralded a Cambodian liberation, “a new era of economic development and social justice.” The new era turned out to be the killing-fields that took the lives of two million Cambodians.”

— David Horowitz

14. “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

15. “He has used this undeserved respect, in conjunction with other black demagogues, to transform a civil rights movement that once stood for race-neutrality in the law, into a vigilante posse seeking one law for “people of color” and another for the rest of America.”

— David Horowitz

16. “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

17. “The Book of Proverbs contains a warning that speaks to us in our uncertain state: “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”14 Those who believe they are changing the world, or saving the planet, or transforming the human race, are intoxicated with self-aggrandizing pride. As secular “redeemers,” a haughty spirit is their second nature. Consequently, they are deaf to this biblical wisdom.”

— David Horowitz

18. “If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?”

— David Horowitz

19. “Black skin privilege guarantees not only exemptions from intellectual and political standards that others are required to meet but from moral standards as well.”

— David Horowitz

20. “In other words there identifiable Islamists occupying positions of influence in the Obama Administration on matters regarding national security and Muslim affairs. At the same time Obama’s tenure had seen the dramatic rise of the previously outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East.”

— David Horowitz

21. “That is why three years later, when Obama surrendered Iraq to Iran no Republican dared accuse him of betraying the Americans who gave their lives to make Iraq independent, even though Iraq as a consequence fell under the sway of Iran and was providing a land conduit for Iranian weapons headed for Syria.”

— David Horowitz

22. “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

23. “Practicing deception to conceal one’s true goals and regarding moral principles and laws as applicable to others but not to oneself are the core concepts of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.”

— David Horowitz

24. “For two hundred years the radical left has believed in a religion promising a heaven on earth whose end justifies any means. That is why progressives like Lenin and Stalin and Pol Pot killed so many innocent people.”

— David Horowitz

25. “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

26. “The catastrophe of every socialist scheme in the 20th century has had a devastating effect on leftwing optimism and has replaced it with the corrosive nihilism that makes it impossible for most leftists to defend a country which, compared to the socialist paradises, is a veritable heaven on earth. All that remains of the revolutionary project is the bitter hatred of the society its exponents inhabit, and their destructive will to bring it down.”

— David Horowitz

27. “The only way to reverse this trend is to mount a campaign to put Obama’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood at the forefront of the political debate, and to educate Americans about the real dangers we face. Americans need to become aware of the Islamic supremacist threat, of the malignant designs of the Muslim Brotherhood, and of the disasters that may lie ahead because of the Obama administration’s policies of appeasing and enabling their evil ambitions.”

— David Horowitz

28. “Liberalism teaches those who have fallen behind in the economic scramble to blame others for their failure. This attitude stimulates juices of resentment and deprives its holders of the power to change their condition.”

— David Horowitz

29. “No one is responsible under liberalism.”

— David Horowitz

30. “During the Obama years, there have been more than 8,000 Islamic terrorist attacks on “infidels” across the globe, a twenty-five percent rise over the years in which the fighting in Iraq was at its height.”

— David Horowitz

31. “Obamacare also provided its bureaucratic social engineers with the power to invent – without consent of Congress – additional mandates to impose on the public. One of these was an anti-conscience requirement that employers must provide insurance coverage for.”

— David Horowitz

32. “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

33. “But all our wisdom had been vanity. I could no longer feel superior to.”

— David Horowitz

34. “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

35. “The issue here isn’t whether every student is brainwashed, it’s whether it is appropriate.”

— David Horowitz

36. “What is ahead of us? Like Pascal, we don’t know. “Believers and non-believers stand in the same darkness. Neither sees God.” Therefore like Pascal we should wager on life. We should bear ourselves in this world as though we have seen God, be kind to each other, love wisely, and give to our children what we would have wished for ourselves.”

— David Horowitz

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

— David Horowitz

38. “Reluctance to go for the jugular and willingness to accept defeat can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you are reluctant to fight, you are inevitably headed toward defeat when the other side is relentless and despises you. It is only for those who persist in the battle and never let up that the possibility of changing the result comes into view. In.”

— David Horowitz

39. “In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.”

— David Horowitz

40. “Tend your garden. Cherish friends and family. Our lives are enlarged and our sense of who we are is enhanced when our children turn out well, and when we can be of help to others. Find satisfaction in this and in completing the tasks you undertake and in fulfilling the responsibilities that are yours. Bear always in mind that only a religious faith can impart meaning to our existence. It does so through the vision of a life hereafter that repairs the irreparable flaws in ours and makes us whole.”

— David Horowitz

41. “The president and his administration then went into cover-up mode lying to Congress and the American people, pretending for weeks afterwards that the attack was the result of a spontaneous demonstration over an anti-Mohammed internet video, whose director they then threw in jail.”

— David Horowitz

42. “In addition to calling him a “racist,” they accused him of being “mentally unstable,” “incompetent,” “morally disreputable,” a “would-be dictator,” and “unfit for the Oval office.” Months before he entered the White House, leading Democrats were vowing to impeach him.”

— David Horowitz

43. “The 20th century is a graveyard in which millions of corpses were sacrificed to the illusion of an earthly salvation.”

— David Horowitz

44. “It was what I believed to be the humanity of the Marxist idea that made me what I was then; it is the inhumanity of what I have seen to be the Marxist reality that has made me what I am now.”

— David Horowitz

45. “The rage of the enemy was directed at a nation that was in its very conception pluralistic and inclusive, a country founded by people who had imagined themselves building a “city on a hill,” a microcosm of all humanity-in its very inclusiveness an exemplar to the world. “America was targeted for attack,” its president explained in an address afterward, “because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.”

— David Horowitz

46. “Ludwig von Mises wrote a book on socialism that predicted the catastrophe we see before us. Socialist economy, he argued, was economic irrationality, and socialist planning a prescription for chaos. Only a capitalist market could provide a system of rational allocations and rational accounts. Only private property and the profit-motive could unleash the forces of individual initiative and human creativity to produce real and expanding wealth – not only for the rich but.”

— David Horowitz

47. “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

48. “The whole history of the radical past, from Trotsky on, warned that my individual truth would have little effect on the attitude of the left. Confronted by such a truth, the left would seek first to ignore and then to discredit it, because it was damaging to the progressive cause.”

— David Horowitz

49. “Let me make this perfectly clear. Those of us who inspired and then led the antiwar movement did not want just to stop the killing, as so many veterans of those domestic battles now claim. We wanted the Communists to win.”

— David Horowitz

50. “Consider, too, for a moment, Chomsky’s misleading comparison of the Soviet and American presses as “mirror images.” In fact, the ignorance imposed on the Soviet public by government-controlled media and official.”

— David Horowitz