Nick Cohen Quotes

#1. No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.

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#2. Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right.

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#3. At the most basic level of protecting a writer's personal safety, democratic countries offer a further advantage. If you steal hundreds of thousands of documents from the Russian state and put them online, the FSB will try to kill you. Steal American secrets, and the CIA will not.

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#4. Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.

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#5. The lesson of history is that, in the long run, super-elites have two ways to survive: by suppressing dissent or by sharing their wealth.

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#6. Their phobia was a fear of America and the West and modernity.

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#7. When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow them to fire at will, and they will hit anything that moves.

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#8. The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.

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#9. Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

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#10. An Iranian foundation offered the earthly reward of $3 million.

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