Peter Hitchens Quotes

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Peter Hitchens

Profession : Journalist

Birth : October 28, 1951

If a man's reputation can be destroyed in an afternoon by a secret kangaroo court, then we, too, can one day be propelled into a pit of everlasting shame by the same process.

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If you are foolish enough to defend your own home against burglary, expect to be arrested, fingerprinted, DNA-swabbed, and probably charged.

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A serious dose of unemployment and a spate of bank failures can make the unelectable electable quite quickly.

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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. Only in the Anglosphere countries - the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - is there anything comparable. I am amazed at how relaxed we are about giving this away.

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In a supposedly free and equal country, there is no excuse for our rulers having VIP treatment. On the contrary, there is every reason for them to get what we get, hot and strong.

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If tough old Lefty Helen Mirren can warm towards the Crown after impersonating Her Majesty, who's next? Since reigning and acting have so much in common, it's surprising all actors aren't fervent royalists.

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The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.

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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.' My skin actually crawled with horror.

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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.'

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The BBC TV programme 'Back In Time For Dinner' doesn't just have one of the cleverest titles ever. It is a more-than-usually-serious attempt to recreate the recent past, the day before yesterday.

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Successful state schools work because charismatic heads or teachers are terrific bluffers, giving the impression that they are to be feared while knowing in their hearts that they have no real power.

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If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.

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Gleeful, unembarrassed ruthlessness, once rightly kept in check, has become normal among us, and 'Game Of Thrones' is a success because this change is now more or less complete.

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The Channel is an international waterway through which the Russians are quite free to pass - and over which we have no exclusive right.

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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.

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The self-righteous supporters of mass immigration think the rest of us are stupid and evil.

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What many of us object to is the politicians who, for whatever reason, forget that societies cannot easily absorb huge numbers of new citizens. I resent the suggestion that this perfectly reasonable view is motivated by racial hatred or personal spite.

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A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.

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Actually, I never wanted an E.U. referendum, and I think those who called for it will one day wish they hadn't.

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What is the point of the police if wrongdoers aren't afraid of them?

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