Peter Hitchens Quotes

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Peter Hitchens

Profession : Journalist

Birth : October 28, 1951

I wonder how many illegal migrants fanned out across the country while I and others were subjected to the stone-faced, suspicious inefficiency of the Border Force?

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Terror works by surprise.

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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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All we have and are is based on the Christian faith, which has shaped law, government, morals, music, landscape, and education here for a thousand years.

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Every educated and intelligent person glories in the freedom of women in Western societies to exercise their talents to the full and their freedom to walk safely in the streets of our great cities.

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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.

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Direct Grants, private schools which took huge numbers of state pupils, involved effective co-operation between state and private sectors - a thing all modern governments claim they want. So why were they abolished? And why aren't they now restored?

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I fear crazy cyclists just as much as I fear inconsiderate drivers. They are like cultists, dressed up like huge insects in dehumanising uniforms, so sure they are saving the planet that they care little for its inhabitants.

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For every cyclist who jumps a red light, a thousand drivers break speed limits or gape dangerously at their smartphones while driving.

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If you are funny, people will like you. A lot of advertising is based on this simple rule. The Tory MP Boris Johnson has benefited a lot from it.

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I hate cars and wish they had never been invented. I try to use them only when I absolutely have to.

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Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. And if you ever wonder why so many things don't work properly any more, or why you can't get any sense out of so many organisations, this is one of the main reasons.

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If we won't fight injustice wherever we see it, then we are not safe from suffering injustice ourselves.

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If you claim to represent and speak for the people, and they are forced to pay your salary, you have a duty to experience life as near as possible to the way others live it.

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The worst country I ever lived in, the old U.S.S.R., was crammed with privileges for the political elite. 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.

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The public, unlike our governing elite, are not obsessed by race and sex. They are rightly interested only in the contents of the person's character.

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I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.

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Female politicos mostly represent a rather militant faction.

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I can't say I'm sorry to see that the name 'Nigel' is dying out, but I'd be happier if it wasn't being replaced by made-up names out of TV series 'Game Of Thrones.'

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