Words matter. These are the best Peter Hitchens Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The self-righteous supporters of mass immigration think the rest of us are stupid and evil.
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?
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.
Average male pay is higher than average female pay for a simple reason. Despite decades of enforced equality, women still have babies, and men still don’t. So women who wish to spend any substantial time at all with their own offspring will fall behind in their careers, and their earnings will be less.
I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.
If you want a day free of work, you must expect others to have the same privilege.
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.
It’s interesting how thrillers reflect the times we live in.
The Church of England hasn’t often produced great men in modern times. But I have long believed that George Bell, Bishop of Chichester from 1929 to 1958, was such a man.
As I am actually partly Cornish, I am frequently tempted to start some sort of Cornish liberation front in the Home Counties, where our language rights are badly neglected.
Donald Trump is a symptom, not a disease. The disease is the death of real political conservatism: a cool, intelligent reluctance to believe that all change is good, a love for the established, the particular, and the well-worn.
If you are foolish enough to defend your own home against burglary, expect to be arrested, fingerprinted, DNA-swabbed, and probably charged.
The Channel is an international waterway through which the Russians are quite free to pass – and over which we have no exclusive right.
If it’s for everyone, it’s not exclusive.
Instead of trying to bring freedom to the Arab world, couldn’t we just concentrate on trying to fend off the European Union and defending our own porous borders?
Actually, I never wanted an E.U. referendum, and I think those who called for it will one day wish they hadn’t.
The picture of Prince Charles meeting Gerry Adams is inexpressibly sad.
Freedom of speech, for those who don’t accept multiculturalism or the sexual revolution, is increasingly limited, mainly by threats to the jobs of those who speak out of turn.
During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism – actually a wild form of liberalism – for conservatism.
Fat does not make you fat.
A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.
The giant fraud that is Britain’s education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves.
Our pious horror at the intolerant and repressive behaviour of Islamic State is bitterly funny, given that it is really not that different from the policies of our close ally, Saudi Arabia.
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.
In a supposedly free and equal country, there is no excuse for our rulers having VIP treatment. On the contrary, there is every reason for them to get what we get, hot and strong.
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.
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.
At every future election, there should be a slot, at the top of each ballot paper, in which we can put a cross against ‘None of the below.’
I’m surprised that more people don’t emulate Rachel Dolezal and pretend to be black or members of some other minority. Our gullible society rushes to reward such status, often with jobs and money.
Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.
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.
Radical multicultural types will, in the end, destroy the things they claim to like, because they don’t understand that liberty and reasonable equality are features of stable, free, conservative societies based on Christian ideas, which guard their borders and are proud of their civilisation.
Work, especially if you’re lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but – like all pleasures – it can become selfish.
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.’
What is the point of the police if wrongdoers aren’t afraid of them?
A serious dose of unemployment and a spate of bank failures can make the unelectable electable quite quickly.
I’m always a bit suspicious of the sort of person who argues by saying ‘What would Jesus have said?’ They usually mean that they are quite sure Jesus would have agreed with them.
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.
Without doubt, the Queen’s personal acceptance of her role as a loyal E.U. servant was one of the great symbolic moments of our history. A bit like Magna Carta, but backwards.
Fear is good and useful when it’s deployed on the side of common sense.
Rigid, state-enforced sex equality is a Marxist policy, pursued to the outer limits in the old East Germany and now being adopted here.
Freedom of speech is freedom above all for those whose views you dislike most.
Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.
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.
I hate cars and wish they had never been invented. I try to use them only when I absolutely have to.
Nowhere in the Beatitudes did Jesus say, ‘Blessed are the queue-jumpers,’ trying to gain an advantage at the expense of others. This is what the people at Calais are.
If tough old Lefty Helen Mirren can warm towards the Crown after impersonating Her Majesty, who’s next? Since reigning and acting have so much in common, it’s surprising all actors aren’t fervent royalists.
Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we were able to decide who came in and who didn’t, it is far easier to disappear in Britain than in almost any other country in the world.
Anyone who seriously wants to keep Scotland in the U.K. must seek to stop the rise of the SNP, not to fuel and encourage it.
I ride a bicycle daily in London and have done for many years.
Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can’t get to.
A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in which we incessantly seek pleasure because we cannot find happiness.
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.
Gleeful, unembarrassed ruthlessness, once rightly kept in check, has become normal among us, and ‘Game Of Thrones’ is a success because this change is now more or less complete.
For every cyclist who jumps a red light, a thousand drivers break speed limits or gape dangerously at their smartphones while driving.
