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Quotes 8 Feb 18

So much of left wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know fire is hot.  - Orwell on W H Auden in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p127

“Islam is an open-ended declaration of war against non-Muslims,” declared the priest, and those who carry out acts of violence and intolerance are only doing what their creed requires... Those who fail to recognise the real threat posed by Islam are naive and ignorant of history, he said, and unfortunately many in the Church fall into this category.  Citing a letter he wrote last August to Pope Francis, Father Boulad said that “on the pretext of openness, tolerance and Christian charity — the Catholic Church has fallen into the trap of the liberal left ideology which is destroying the West.” -Father Henri Boulad

It is doubtful whether a fortress as strong as Singapore can be taken by storm - Orwell on BBC radio January 1942, - in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p143 It fell the next month, the worst ever British army defeat and by an outnumbered Japanese force.

Economic problems never start with economics. They have much deeper roots in human nature. - Margaret Thatcher to the Conservative Party Conference, 1975 in The Mighty and the Almighty by Nick Spencer p1

We are all members one of another ... in the concept of the Church on earth, the Body of Christ ... we learn or interdependence ... and the great truth  that we do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society. - Margaret Thatcher, speech at St Lawrence Jury, London, 30 Mar 1978 in The Mighty and the Almighty by by Nick Spencer p3

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