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Top 20 Peter Hitchens Quotes (2025 Update)

Peter Hitchens Quote: “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?”

1. “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

Peter Hitchens Quote: “A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.”

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

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “Globalisation is all about wealth. It knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Without borders the world will become – is visibly becoming – a howling desert of traffic fumes, plastic and concrete, where nowhere is home and the only language is money.”

3. “Globalisation is all about wealth. It knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Without borders the world will become – is visibly becoming – a howling desert of traffic fumes, plastic and concrete, where nowhere is home and the only language is money.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “The problem of utopia is that it can only be approached across a sea of blood, and you never arrive.”

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

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Peter Hitchens Quote: “You cannot really debate with somebody who truly despises you.”

8. “You cannot really debate with somebody who truly despises you.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “The US constitution is like Washington DC, a matter of columns and beautiful design, the English constitution is more like a forest, you can’t build a forest, you can easily cut it down, and that is what we’re doing, we’re cutting down a forest that we can’t rebuild.”

9. “The US constitution is like Washington DC, a matter of columns and beautiful design, the English constitution is more like a forest, you can’t build a forest, you can easily cut it down, and that is what we’re doing, we’re cutting down a forest that we can’t rebuild.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “State ownership of industry is no longer politically important or particularly contentious. Regulation by unaccountable national bodies, and even by more unaccountable supranational and global authorities, has quietly taken its place, with implication that few have yet grasped.”

11. “State ownership of industry is no longer politically important or particularly contentious. Regulation by unaccountable national bodies, and even by more unaccountable supranational and global authorities, has quietly taken its place, with implication that few have yet grasped.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “This society, promoted by its leaders as an egalitarian utopia, was in truth one of the most unequal societies on earth.”

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

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “Those who write where many read, and speak where many listen, had best be careful what they say. Someone is bound to take them seriously, and it really is no good pretending that you didn’t know this.”

14. “Those who write where many read, and speak where many listen, had best be careful what they say. Someone is bound to take them seriously, and it really is no good pretending that you didn’t know this.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “The EU is the continuation of Germany by other means.”

15. “The EU is the continuation of Germany by other means.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “I concede to my atheist opponents that belief or unbelief is a choice. As a choice, it is based upon desire. I desire, and therefore choose to believe in, one kind of universe, one that has laws and purpose with justice woven into its very fabric. The unbeliever desires, and therefore chooses to believe in, a chaotic universe where the dead remain dead and actions have no effect beyond their immediately observable consequences.”

16. “I concede to my atheist opponents that belief or unbelief is a choice. As a choice, it is based upon desire. I desire, and therefore choose to believe in, one kind of universe, one that has laws and purpose with justice woven into its very fabric. The unbeliever desires, and therefore chooses to believe in, a chaotic universe where the dead remain dead and actions have no effect beyond their immediately observable consequences.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “Only one reliable force stands in the way of the power of the strong over the weak. Only one reliable force forms the foundation of the concept of the rule of law. Only one reliable force restrains the hand of the man of power. And, in an age of power-worship, the Christian religion has become the principal obstacle to the desire of earthly utopians for absolute power.”

17. “Only one reliable force stands in the way of the power of the strong over the weak. Only one reliable force forms the foundation of the concept of the rule of law. Only one reliable force restrains the hand of the man of power. And, in an age of power-worship, the Christian religion has become the principal obstacle to the desire of earthly utopians for absolute power.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.”

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

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone else’s. John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading viewers to envy themselves as they would be if they bought the product. These programmes do something similar, by persuading the viewer to envy himself as he would be if his life were that little bit more exciting and melodramatic than it actually is. They can make things seem normal that are not.”

19. “We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone else’s. John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading viewers to envy themselves as they would be if they bought the product. These programmes do something similar, by persuading the viewer to envy himself as he would be if his life were that little bit more exciting and melodramatic than it actually is. They can make things seem normal that are not.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “In a Godless universe, what is the difference between doing unto others that we would wish them to do unto us, and merely appearing to do unto others that we would wish them to do unto us? The answer, alas, is that if there is no God who knows the secrets of our hearts, it is all too easy to appear to be good, and even to do formally good deeds, all of which are empty of real goodness.”

20. “In a Godless universe, what is the difference between doing unto others that we would wish them to do unto us, and merely appearing to do unto others that we would wish them to do unto us? The answer, alas, is that if there is no God who knows the secrets of our hearts, it is all too easy to appear to be good, and even to do formally good deeds, all of which are empty of real goodness.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “Proper education is a fundamentally conservative activity, based on the assumption that a body of knowledge exists, is in the hands of the adult and educated, and can be passed on in measurable ways, by disciplined learning reinforced with authority.”

21. “Proper education is a fundamentally conservative activity, based on the assumption that a body of knowledge exists, is in the hands of the adult and educated, and can be passed on in measurable ways, by disciplined learning reinforced with authority.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “The Bible angers and frustrates those who believe that the pursuit of a perfect society justifies the quest for absolute power.”

22. “The Bible angers and frustrates those who believe that the pursuit of a perfect society justifies the quest for absolute power.”

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23. “The new brand of militant atheism... adopts a mocking and high-handed tone of certainty, sneers at its Christian opponents, and states, or implies, that they must be stupid. This style of attack conforms to the irreverent spirit of the age and so is not very carefully examined. It is not widely recognised that secularism is a fundamentally political movement, which seeks to remove the remaining traces of Christian moral law in the civil and criminal codes of the Western nations.”

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Peter Hitchens Quote: “Increasingly I’m convinced that in a primitive society someone like me would have been clubbed to death quite early on just for being annoying.”

24. “Increasingly I’m convinced that in a primitive society someone like me would have been clubbed to death quite early on just for being annoying.”

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