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If there is a punishment for telling the truth, then many people will tell lies.

— Douglas Murray

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To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness.

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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)

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

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Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

Homer Iliad (-750)

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