Peter Hitchens Quotes

Quotes old and new from Peter Hitchens of the Mail on Sunday.

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'War, for the past century, has been the handmaid and herald of state control, Socialism, inflation and high taxation, doing limitless damage to the Church, marriage and the family, stability, order and morality.'

From 'What I said about the Iraq War in February and March 2003'

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'But what is a 'Blairite' anyway?

The word, in its crudest sense, means 'power-worshipper'.'

'From man to pig, and from pig to man', Hitchensblog June 2008.

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'Just another Thatcherite revival.'

On The Brexit Party, Twitter, May 2019.
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'A proper life requires some understanding of who we are and why we might be here, which is why the almost total collapse of Christian belief and worship has left so many, especially among the poor, with empty lives without purpose or world-view.'

PH Blog, April 2019.

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'We need, in many ways, a reverse Fabianism in which conservative ideas seek to spread themselves into every corner of culture and society.'

Still not a manifesto, September 2007.

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'For if there is to be any hope of harmony in these islands, then it can only come through a great effort to bring us all together, once again, in a shared love for this, the most beautiful and blessed plot of earth on the planet.'

Mail on Sunday, March 2013.

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'But I do feel the need, sometimes, to strike back at the incessant suggestion that the Nazis were really just a type of conservative, and that Hitler was some sort of Christian.'

How Left-Wing Were the National Socialists? October 2017.

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'As to whether I engage more generally in Twitter itself, my inclinations for the moment are not to do so, because of the largely moronic, mob-rage atmosphere that I find whenever I say anything in a public place, or on TV or radio.'

To Tweet or not to Tweet, December 2012.

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'I had hoped for a kingdom of the mind and found a squalid pantry in which greasy, unprincipled deals were made by people who were no better than they ought to be.'

An Empty Parliament, October 2017.
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'If this is what being special involves, I would rather not be special any more.'

Down with the Special Relationship, February 2009.

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'I can just remember another country, a place of austere self-control, of unwrecked countryside and sober cities, serious schools, heavy coins, visible authoritative policemen, flourishing industry.. If Id known how soon it would vanish I would have treasured it more.'

MoS, 2019

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'Radio 4 is one of the few bits of the BBC which still retains a reasonable level of literacy, and it seems to me to inflict more Stephen Fry on its listeners than they can really be said to deserve.'

A Slug Asks Stephen Fry 'Is it witty to call someone a slug?', September 2014.

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'Even if you believe the Warmist claim that climate change is caused by human activity, China’s coal policy makes our sacrifice of efficient reliable power quite pointless.'

Mail on Sunday, September 2018.

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'The afterglow of Christianity persists long after the thing itself dies, just as light stays in the sky after sunset. But in the end , the darkness falls.'

Twitter, February 2018.

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'We prepare ourselves, don't we, for eternal life in our temporal lives, and it seems to me that the great arts are part of that preparation.'

The Eric Metaxas Show, March 2019.
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'Those who are dismissed as 'bonkers' almost always do turn out to be right later on, and there is probably a historical study to be done about this.'

The dangerous uselessness of 'Euroscepticism', January 2008.

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'My gorge rises at the use of the word 'white'. The issue should never be, and really should never be, the colour of somebody's skin.'

Question Time, February 2013.

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'The young Peter Hitchens looked like a cut-price Bob Dylan, and I have the pictures to prove it.'

Twitter, April 2018.

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'Several things lodged in my memory about ‘Foreign Correspondent’, but above all was the sudden appearance of George Sanders, playing the louche, rackety and unscrupulous upper-class journalist Scott ffolliott... It was ffolliott I wanted to be.'

PH Blog, October 2018.

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[on Game of Thrones] 'The whole point of this saga is that ruthlessness pays, that evil generally wins, that justice is non-existent, and utter cynicism the only wisdom. It is the Middle Ages without the saving grace of Christianity.'

Mail on Sunday, April 2015.