There, you are free from the influences of home, subsidised into a fake independence which you think you have earned, spared the need to earn your bread, spared contact with the true drama of provincial life, and surrounded by arrogant and self-righteous people in their late teens, much like yourself - who think that they have discovered sex and idealism for the first time in the history of the human race.”, “This society, promoted by its leaders as an egalitarian utopia, was in truth one of the most unequal societies on earth.”, “Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV.
70 quotes from Peter Hitchens: 'Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think? Memories, Dies, Nations. A generation began by thinking itself revolutionary has adopted drugs which spread passivity and contentment.”, “The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.”, “I long ago gave up lecturing other countries on how they should run themselves. Anyone who seriously wants to keep Scotland in the U.K. must seek to stop the rise of the SNP, not to fuel and encourage it. During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism - actually a wild form of liberalism - for conservatism. Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?
If you want a day free of work, you must expect others to have the same privilege. Regulation by unaccountable national bodies, and even by more unaccountable supranational and global authorities, has quietly taken its place, with implication that few have yet grasped.”, “People who think themselves benevolent can rarely grasp that others may also think them despotic and are especially bad at recognising that their opponents may have a point.”, “A liberal will defend to the death your right to agree with her. BrainyQuote has been providing inspirational quotes since 2001 to our worldwide community. Peter Hitchens (2016). As a choice, it is based upon desire. It is because if people knew what Abortion really looked like, it would destroy their pretence that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unwanted babies. They adapt the human being to them.”. Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
For every cyclist who jumps a red light, a thousand drivers break speed limits or gape dangerously at their smartphones while driving. The picture of Prince Charles meeting Gerry Adams is inexpressibly sad.
Only one reliable force forms the foundation of the concept of the rule of law. What many of us object to is the politicians who, for whatever reason, forget that societies cannot easily absorb huge numbers of new citizens. “The problem of utopia is that it can only be approached across a sea of blood, and you never arrive.”, “I think it is important for our society to wonder why it has lately become so ready to accept that human woe can be cured or soothed by chemicals. Since reigning and acting have so much in common, it's surprising all actors aren't fervent royalists. Nobody under 30 knows anything.
If migrants from other cultures arrive too fast and in numbers too great for society to absorb and integrate them, they begin to impose those cultures on the host country.
As I am actually partly Cornish, I am frequently tempted to start some sort of Cornish liberation front in the Home Counties, where our language rights are badly neglected. They were the shared pleasure, the unholy communion and the initiation rite, of the post-1968 cultural and moral revolutionaries. Be the first to learn about new releases! The unbeliever desires, and therefore chooses to believe in, a chaotic universe where the dead remain dead and actions have no effect beyond their immediately observable consequences.”, “Like the pagans of old, unaffected by climate, the British were now dancing around a giant phallus. A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation. Nobody under 55 knows anything much about life. If you know something damaging about a major political figure, then, in a democracy, it is surely your duty to tell the voters before they go to the polls. A lot of advertising is based on this simple rule. Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV.
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Terrorists are overjoyed when we shut down our freedoms and turn ourselves into a police state and when we retaliate, swatting the Middle East with useless bombs or rounding up the wrong suspects and locking them up without charge.
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Peter Hitchens (2016). John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading viewers to envy themselves as they would be if they bought the product. The Tory MP Boris Johnson has benefited a lot from it. Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to.
My skin actually crawled with horror. The liberal society requires all its citizens to be perfectly balanced, conforming to its ideals and aims with a happy heart and a willing mind”, “We must decide whether to act as if the universe is a cosmic car-crash, in which our actions have no significance beyond their observable effects, or an ordered and purposeful whole, in which our actions continue to echo and reverberate down all eternity.”, “I concede to my atheist opponents that belief or unbelief is a choice. I am amazed at how relaxed we are about giving this away. 33 Copy quote. You know you are old when what you still think of as recent films are remade.
Only in the Anglosphere countries - the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - is there anything comparable. A serious dose of unemployment and a spate of bank failures can make the unelectable electable quite quickly.
“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening. They had their own hospital, their own shops, country houses, and blocks of flats, special lanes on the streets so they could bypass the traffic in their special cars. Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends, This website or its third-party tools use cookies, which are necessary to its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in the cookie policy. Share with your friends. Our pious horror at the intolerant and repressive behaviour of Islamic State is bitterly funny, given that it is really not that different from the policies of our close ally, Saudi Arabia.
A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in which we incessantly seek pleasure because we cannot find happiness. The most terrifying thing I ever saw in a cinema, thanks to the carefully built-up drama, was in the ancient black-and-white film 'The Innocents,' based on Henry James's 'The Turn Of The Screw.' A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation. “The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing, There is a mistake in the text of this quote.
If tough old Lefty Helen Mirren can warm towards the Crown after impersonating Her Majesty, who's next? It's a punishment, not a drink.
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This is not because they are squeamish or prudish. And, in an age of power-worship, the Christian religion has become the principal obstacle to the desire of earthly utopians for absolute power.”, “In my early teens, [my grandfather] would sometimes stomp around his living room, where he used to shave towards mid-day with bowl, brush and open razor, deriding my ignorance and mocking the made-up discipline of sociology, which I at one stage claimed to be studying. Only one reliable force restrains the hand of the man of power. Welcome back. At every future election, there should be a slot, at the top of each ballot paper, in which we can put a cross against 'None of the below.'.
They can make things seem normal that are not.”, “the balance of power between the sexes had been destabilized, and relations between mothers and their children transformed from a natural and accepted one to a mere option.”, “The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.”, “The conservative society accepts that rebellion and bad behaviour are natural and must be curbed. The worst country I ever lived in, the old U.S.S.R., was crammed with privileges for the political elite. I desire, and therefore choose to believe in, one kind of universe, one that has laws and purpose with justice woven into its very fabric. I have visited nearly 60 countries and lived in the U.S.S.R., Russia, and the U.S.A., and I have never experienced anything as good as what we have. Quotations by Peter Hitchens, English Journalist, Born October 28, 1951. This is not because they are squeamish or prudish.
Peter Hitchens. In a supposedly free and equal country, there is no excuse for our rulers having VIP treatment. These programmes do something similar, by persuading the viewer to envy himself as he would be if his life were that little bit more exciting and melodramatic than it actually is. Unlike the pagans theirs was a sterile phallus, disarmed by condoms and pills - the first heathen sexual cult to be based around sterility rather than fertility.”, “Idealism and dogma are easier to sustain in a modern university campus than anywhere else on earth.
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