Quotes from David Horowitz

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

Every Communist revolution begins as a rape of the present and continues as a cannibalization of the past.

on. It took a Trump to look her in the eye with seventy million people watching during one of the presidential debates and say, "You are a liar and a crook," which she was both. Everybody knew it, but only Donald Trump dared to utter it out loud.

you for or against the equality of human beings?

The regime of social justice, of which the left dreams, is a regime that by its very nature must crush individual freedom.

In the four years since Obama's first inauguration, almost three times as many Americans have been killed in Afghanistan as in the eight years of the Bush administration.

Yet, in the face of this bloody and intensifying Islamist offensive, Obama has tried to convince the American people that the war against al-Qaeda has been essentially "won" -- by him -- and the terrorist threat is subsiding.1 Denial of the war Islamists have declared on us and denial of the threat it represents is the heart of the Obama doctrine that has guided this nation's policies for more than four years.

The use of force in Iraq had been authorized by both houses of Congress, including a majority of Democrats in the Senate. It was supported in eloquent speeches by John Kerry, John Edwards, Al Gore and other Democratic leaders. But just three months into the war, they turned against an action that they had authorized, and began a five-year campaign to delegitimize the war, casting America as its villain.

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

With the support and protection of Democratic legislators, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the major TV networks now undertook a relentless five-year propaganda campaign against the war, taking relatively minor incidents like the misbehavior of guards at the Abu Ghraib prison and blowing them up into international scandals damaging their country's prestige and weakening its morale.

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.

Minimum wage increases. The Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman has observed that the minimum wage is one of the most ... anti-black laws on the statute books because it destroys entry level jobs for second paycheck earners, teens, and other unskilled workers.

Republicans lost control of the narrative because they never held the Democrats accountable for their betrayal.

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

promote the teaching in mosques and madrassas that Muslims must coexist peacefully as equals with infidels on a permanent basis. And they could oppose blasphemy laws, such as the anti-Islamophobia resolutions they are promoting, which are a direct assault on the American Bill of Rights.

It is an archetypal Sixties case history—the rejection of real solutions in favor of demands that are made with the knowledge they cannot be met.

The personal dream of every radical is to be at the center of creation and the renewal of the world.

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.

If I had a mission to name, it was about wrestling with the most powerful and pernicious of all human follies, which is the desire to stifle truth in the name of hope.

If the 1970s had been the time of radical theories, then the 1980s were the time when politics began increasingly to replace professionalism in the universities. Government lent powerful reinforcement to the new concept of university regulations and funding that favored social justice over knowledge or merit.

The future is a work of prejudice and malice inextricably bound with generosity and hope. Its fate is unalterably out of our control. Insofar as this work is manageable at all, it is carried out now and forever under the terrible anarchy of freedom that God has imposed on his children and will not take back.

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.

Conservatism does not have a party line. It is possible for conservatives to question virtually any position held by other conservatives including, evidently, the notion that they are conservatives at all, without risking excommunication, expulsion, or even a raised eyebrow.

If we knew where every Soviet missile and tank was, there could be no surprise attacks or false "missile gaps" based on erroneous estimates, such as had underwritten Kennedy's arms-buildup in the Sixties. To print Peck's article would strike a blow against the war machine.