Mary Whitehouse quotes

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive. (Mary Whitehouse)

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

Mary Whitehouse

AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.

Mary Whitehouse

[Television] may teach self-interest rather than philanthropy, violence rather than gentleness, a disregard for human dignity rather than a respect for it. It may not always teach the truth but teach it does, and it is more than time that responsible people both within and outside the broadcasting professions said boldly what is so obvious in commonsense terms - we cannot understand what is happening in international, cultural, economic, political and social affairs without coming to grips with the way in which television influences virtually all our behavioural and thought processes.

Mary Whitehouse

It is a deliberate affront to the people to whom it gave so much offence by its near pornography and calculated bias. It would seem the BBC are out to test whether they have managed to condition people into accepting now what they rebelled against last year.

Mary Whitehouse

Dr Who: "Contains some of the sickest, most horrible material"

Mary Whitehouse

...it is because one is aware that many psychiatrists do believe homosexuality to be an illness that one is so against the proselytising of the young which is so large a part of the work of the organised homosexuals.

Mary Whitehouse

Mary Whitehouse

Occupation: British Activist
Born: June 13, 1910
Died: November 23, 2001
Quotes count: 7
Wikipedia: Mary Whitehouse

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