10 quotes
If there is a punishment for telling the truth, then many people will tell lies.
To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness.
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017)
Discussions of minority interests are one way of claiming political virtue.
If it were agreed that everybody did bad things in the past, then it would be possible to move on and even to move beyond it.
If you import the world's people you also import the world's problems, with perhaps some new ones.
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017)
Just a couple of decades ago, a course in the history of Western civilization was commonplace. Today it is so disreputable that you can't pay universities to do it.
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason (2022)
Edmund Burke made the central conservative insight; that a culture and a society are not things run for the convenience of the people who happen to be here right now, but is a deep pact between the dead, the living, and those yet to be born.
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017)
Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words – even provocative or repugnant ones – are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech.
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019)
Those who believe Europe is for the world have never explained why this process should be one way: why Europeans going anywhere else in the world is colonialism whereas the rest of the world coming to Europe is just and fair.
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017)
The desire to continue to feel yourself guilty arguably finds its endpoint in modern European liberal societies: the first societies in human history who, when they are hit, ask what they did to deserve it. Unassuageable historical guilt carries over into the present.
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017)