Douglas Murray quotes

Douglas Murray is a British author, journalist, and political commentator, known for his works on culture, politics, and free speech. His writing often explores topics like immigration, identity, and challenges to Western values. He is recognized for his articulate advocacy of liberal democracy and critical perspectives on contemporary social issues. Here are 14 of his quotes:

Immigration is the major issue everywhere, and even the countries where it isn't the number one issue, it ends up becoming one.

Douglas Murray

A country that believes it has never done any wrong is a country that could do wrong at any time. But a country that believes it has only done wrong, or done such a terrible, unalleviated amount of wrong in the past, is likely to become a country that is inclined to doubt its ability to ever do any good in the future.

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The desire to continue to feel yourself guilty arguably finds its endpoint in modern European liberal societies: the first societies in human history who, when they are hit, ask what they did to deserve it. Unassuageable historical guilt carries over into the present.

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Contra all the assurances and expectations, the people who came into Europe did not throw themselves into our culture and become a part of it. They brought their own cultures. And they did so at the precise moment that our own culture was at a point that it lacked the confidence to argue its own case.

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To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness.

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Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words – even provocative or repugnant ones – are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech.

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Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.

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In Israel, you see strong borders as the best way to ensure peace, while in Europe, people see it as a cause of war.

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Audiences I speak to are often openly hostile, and I know my arguments might fall on deaf ears with 99% of the audience.

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Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them. But animal rights fanatics do not have a point. They are the sort of people who threaten human beings in their effort to 'defend' animals.

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I speak at various events, including student societies, several times a week.

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There are nutters across every political and religious spectrum; it goes without saying.

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