Quotations

 "The notion that democratic countries are peace loving because they enjoy strong support from populations whereas autocratic, authoritarian countries are necessarily warlike.... because they are fragile, do not enjoy support of the populations and so they tend to look for foreign wars to maintain their hold over the population. That's a very simple notion. Dead wrong of course but try to find people in the European political classes who would disagree with that. This is the whole European values story.... To bring them back to common sense is a vast, vast task." Dr. Gilbert Doctorow, talking to Glenn Diesen

German poet Heinrich Heine was once asked why men no longer build great cathedrals. He replied: "People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral."

“I can just remember another country, a place of austere self-control, of unwrecked countryside and sober cities, serious schools, heavy coins, visible, authoritative policemen, flourishing industry… If I'd known how soon it would vanish I would have treasured it more.” Peter Hitchens

“A hundred years ago, everyone would have thought it absurd to speak of homosexual marriage. Today whoever opposes it is socially excommunicated. The same applies to abortion and the production of human beings in the laboratory. 

"Modern society is in the process of formulating an ‘anti-Christian creed,’ and resisting it is punishable by social excommunication.” 

Pope Benedict XVI in his book What is Christianity? which he arranged to be published posthumously to avoid his being ripped apart by critics.