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Top 15 Nick Cohen Quotes (2025 Update)

Nick Cohen Quote: “Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.”

1. “Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “Voltaire’s pointed question, ‘What to say to a man who tells you he prefers to obey God than to obey men, and who is consequently sure of entering the gates of Heaven by slitting your throat?”

2. “Voltaire’s pointed question, ‘What to say to a man who tells you he prefers to obey God than to obey men, and who is consequently sure of entering the gates of Heaven by slitting your throat?”

Nick Cohen Quote: “Respect for religion is the opposite of religious tolerance, because it allows the intolerant to impose their will on others.”

3. “Respect for religion is the opposite of religious tolerance, because it allows the intolerant to impose their will on others.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “Foucault himself argued that liberal democracy was the worst form of tyranny. The Enlightenment that Westerners imagined had freed them had in fact enslaved them in insidious ways that Westerners were too stupid to see – with the exception of French philosophers.”

5. “Foucault himself argued that liberal democracy was the worst form of tyranny. The Enlightenment that Westerners imagined had freed them had in fact enslaved them in insidious ways that Westerners were too stupid to see – with the exception of French philosophers.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.”

6. “The evidence for man-made global warming is as final as the evidence of Auschwitz.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes – an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, and the most ruthlessly sceptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.”

7. “At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes – an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, and the most ruthlessly sceptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “By the Eighties socialism was dying even in the poor world, and there was nothing left to do for those who hated the status quo but embrace the programme of the anti-democratic far right, as Foucault had done, or more usually, just refuse to come out against radical reactionary forces on the grounds that any movement that was against the West couldn’t be all bad.”

8. “By the Eighties socialism was dying even in the poor world, and there was nothing left to do for those who hated the status quo but embrace the programme of the anti-democratic far right, as Foucault had done, or more usually, just refuse to come out against radical reactionary forces on the grounds that any movement that was against the West couldn’t be all bad.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “No one is as murderously ‘Islamophobic’ as Islamists are.”

9. “No one is as murderously ‘Islamophobic’ as Islamists are.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “Wechsler and the New York Times showed that Adams’ two immediate successors as president, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, as well as many others, regarded Adams’ political censorship of ‘seditious’ newspapers that criticised the state as a clear breach of the First Amendment and an attack on democracy.”

10. “Wechsler and the New York Times showed that Adams’ two immediate successors as president, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, as well as many others, regarded Adams’ political censorship of ‘seditious’ newspapers that criticised the state as a clear breach of the First Amendment and an attack on democracy.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “But it is worth recalling the almost genocidal class hatreds of many leading liberal-left intellectuals, because they show that the motives of a part of the intelligentsia were anything but honourable. They did not want the welfare state to reward their fellow citizens for what they and their ancestors had suffered. They wanted the welfare state to transform them from brutes into men or women whose company Virginia Woolf could tolerate.”

11. “But it is worth recalling the almost genocidal class hatreds of many leading liberal-left intellectuals, because they show that the motives of a part of the intelligentsia were anything but honourable. They did not want the welfare state to reward their fellow citizens for what they and their ancestors had suffered. They wanted the welfare state to transform them from brutes into men or women whose company Virginia Woolf could tolerate.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “Their phobia was a fear of America and the West and modernity.”

12. “Their phobia was a fear of America and the West and modernity.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “When the political partisan’s beliefs are insulted or ridiculed, he feels the ‘offence’ as deeply as any believer who has heard his god or prophet questioned. We do not, however, prohibit or restrict arguments about politics out of ‘respect’ for political ideologies, because we are a free society. We call societies that prohibit political arguments ‘dictatorships’, and know without needing to be told that the prohibiting is done to protect the ruling elite.”

13. “When the political partisan’s beliefs are insulted or ridiculed, he feels the ‘offence’ as deeply as any believer who has heard his god or prophet questioned. We do not, however, prohibit or restrict arguments about politics out of ‘respect’ for political ideologies, because we are a free society. We call societies that prohibit political arguments ‘dictatorships’, and know without needing to be told that the prohibiting is done to protect the ruling elite.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.”

14. “Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “2005 study of British chiropractors found that 77 per cent did not seek informed consent.”

15. “2005 study of British chiropractors found that 77 per cent did not seek informed consent.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “The victories of the Enlightenment, the vote, welfare, bills of rights, the separation of church and state and the emancipation of women, homosexuals and blacks, which previous generations had fought and on occasion died to achieve, were all now treated as parts of ‘the hegemonic’ and included in condemnations of a monolithic world order that made no distinctions.”

16. “The victories of the Enlightenment, the vote, welfare, bills of rights, the separation of church and state and the emancipation of women, homosexuals and blacks, which previous generations had fought and on occasion died to achieve, were all now treated as parts of ‘the hegemonic’ and included in condemnations of a monolithic world order that made no distinctions.”

Nick Cohen Quote: “I hope I am not making the insulting error of pretending that democracies are as oppressive as dictatorships – such comparisons are the self-pitying and self-dramatising whines of spoilt Western children.”

17. “I hope I am not making the insulting error of pretending that democracies are as oppressive as dictatorships – such comparisons are the self-pitying and self-dramatising whines of spoilt Western children.”

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