Quotations

Barack Obama two days ago in Ireland: “The fact is that the Jewish people, for millennia, were oppressed, discriminated against, killed. Europe was responsible for much of it. They understandably sought a refuge.That is undeniable. What is also undeniable is that they took land off people, and they were excessive. And those people understandably said, This is injustice, and I want my land back.”

Sir Roger Scruton: “If you start thinking about politics in an intellectual way, you are likely to be on the left, because that provides a systematic solution, an answer to the questions, puts it all in a system, and also gives you a rather dignified and self-congratulatory place in the system. But if you think a bit harder and longer about it, you’ll move back to what you would have been if you had never thought at all. That’s my view of what an intellectual conservative is: it’s someone who articulates the real reasons for not having reasons.”

Bunny Sheffield: "Feminism is Marxism in drag."