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It is a fantasy to believe that you punish politicians by throwing them out of office. It is when they leave office that they start making the real money.

— Peter Hitchens

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A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

The Abolition of Britain (1999)

Fear is good for us and helps us to escape from great dangers. Those who do not feel it are in permanent peril because they cannot see the risks that lie at their feet.

The Rage Against God (2010)

The Bible angers and frustrates those who believe that the pursuit of a perfect society justifies the quest for absolute power.

The Rage Against God (2010)

The Spitfire, symbol of British military heroism in the 'Good War', was always, at heart, a defensive weapon.

The Phoney Victory (2018)

A liberal will defend to the death your right to agree with her. Disagree with her, and she will call the police.

The Cameron Delusion (2010)

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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