Peter Hitchens Quotes

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Peter Hitchens

Profession : Journalist

Birth : October 28, 1951

The giant fraud that is Britain's education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves.

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If it's for everyone, it's not exclusive.

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All serious elite institutions, from the great London clubs to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, have always made sure that most people can't get into them. That's the point.

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News isn't just what happens. It's what a fairly small group of people decide is news.

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MPs do not work for you. They work for the lobbyists who have bought their parties.

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Nobody under 55 knows anything much about life. Nobody under 30 knows anything.

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Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections.

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What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a career.

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Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to.

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Most of the really successful civilisations survived because they were protected from invasion by mountains, sea, deserts, or a combination of these things. Ask the Russians or the Poles what it's like to live without the shield of the sea.

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Do not underestimate Jeremy Corbyn.

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Mr. Corbyn reminds mature people of the days when the big parties really differed. He impresses the young because he doesn't patronise them, and obviously believes what he says.

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I dislike many of Mr Corbyn's opinions - his belief in egalitarianism and high taxation, his enthusiasm for comprehensive schools, his readiness to talk to terrorists, and his support for the E.U.

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We say we want politicians who are open and honest. And then, when we get one, we angrily pelt him with slime until he cringes to the mob, starts hiding his real views, and hires a spin doctor just like all the others.

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A fierce and principled opposition stops a fat, complacent government from making stupid mistakes.

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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.

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I don't think the British or American governments really want to fight the Islamic State. They just want to look as if they are doing so.

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I've grown tired of people impersonating world-weary cynics by intoning the old saying 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' as if it were a new-minted witticism.

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Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

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Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority.

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