Quotes About Peter Hitchens

#1. The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.

Peter Hitchens

#2. We must decide whether to act as if the universe is a cosmic car-crash, in which our actions have no significance beyond their observable effects, or an ordered and purposeful whole, in which our actions continue to echo and reverberate down all eternity.

Peter Hitchens

#3. I happen to think Israel is in many ways a noble enterprise, worth defending and supporting, and that Israel's fashionable enemies in the West have allied themselves with some of the nastiest and most bigoted forces now loose in the world.

Peter Hitchens

#4. The conservative society accepts that rebellion and bad behaviour are natural and must be curbed. The liberal society requires all its citizens to be perfectly balanced, conforming to its ideals and aims with a happy heart and a willing mind - a

Peter Hitchens

#5. The balance of power between the sexes had been destabilized, and relations between mothers and their children transformed from a natural and accepted one to a mere option.

Peter Hitchens

#6. Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?

Ken Griffey Jr.

#7. I think it is important for our society to wonder why it has lately become so ready to accept that human woe can be cured or soothed by chemicals. These chemicals do not alter or reform the ills of our civilisation. They adapt the human being to them.

Peter Hitchens

#8. I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.

Kelly Preston

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

Peter Hitchens

#10. There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It's a moment in which your work is almost a co-creation, you and the reader joining forces to make your words live.

Dani Harper

#11. Like the pagans of old, unaffected by climate, the British were now dancing around a giant phallus. Unlike the pagans theirs was a sterile phallus, disarmed by condoms and pills - the first heathen sexual cult to be based around sterility rather than fertility.

Peter Hitchens

#12. I never went to drama school.

Matthew Lewis

#13. Working with those versed in the Mystical Arts was sometimes like trying to knit with wet spaghetti: just when you thought you'd gotten somewhere, it all came to pieces in your hands.

Jasper Fforde

#14. It did not then cross my mind that they, like religious apologists, might have any personal reasons for holding to this disbelief. It certainly did not cross my mind that I had any low motives for it. Unlike Christians, atheists have a high opinion of their own virtue.

Peter Hitchens

#15. Everything God made was good. Man's the one who messed it up, and we've been blaming God for it ever since.

Cathy Bryant

#16. This society, promoted by its leaders as an egalitarian utopia, was in truth one of the most unequal societies on earth.

Peter Hitchens

#17. Far too many people - many of them academics, many politicians - continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two countries.
I used to think that no such thing existed. Recently, I have become convinced that it does, and that it is in fact a Specially Bad Relationship.

Peter Hitchens

#18. The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.

Peter Hitchens

#19. The problem of utopia is that it can only be approached across a sea of blood, and you never arrive.

Peter Hitchens

#20. Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

Peter Hitchens

#21. It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.

Sara Sheridan

#22. You know what I regret the most? Trinity says, her voice just above a whisper.
I don't answer. All I can think about is how crappy it is that my fourteen-year-old sister already has regrets.

Paula Stokes