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.

Quote by David Horowitz

Topics: Desire Quotes, Lies Quotes, Reason Quotes

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would...

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would...

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

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

Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how...

Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how...

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

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

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much...

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much...

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks...

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks...

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles...

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles...

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

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

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right,...

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right,...

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its...

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its...

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court...

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court...

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

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

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

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

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based...

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based...

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties...

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties...

We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without...

We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without...

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this...

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this...

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

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