Ian Dunt > Quotes

“Leave wasn’t an alternate economic or political model. It was a blank canvas which people could project their hopes, aspirations and frustrations onto. This was the only way you could get voters from the shires to vote with those from post-industrial towns in the north. It was a fantasy land of universal expectation.”
― Ian Dunt, Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: A Simple Guide to the Difficulty of Leaving the EU

“It would be like two men in a room threatening to shoot themselves, except the EU’s gun is pointing at its foot and Britain’s gun is pointing at its head.”
― Ian Dunt, Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: A Simple Guide to the Difficulty of Leaving the EU

“The liberty of the whole of humanity,’ he said, ‘did not justify shedding the blood of a single man.”
― Ian Dunt, How To Be A Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival

“May’s decision to give away the date and then petition for talks outside Article 50 was equivalent to a gunman throwing down his weapon and demanding the enemy surrender.”
― Ian Dunt, Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: A Simple Guide to the Difficulty of Leaving the EU

“As the train rolled back to London, he watched ‘the barges on the miry river, the familiar streets, the posters telling of cricket matches and Royal weddings, the men in bowler hats, the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, the red buses, the blue policemen – all sleeping the deep, deep sleep of England”
― Ian Dunt, How To Be A Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival

“These three ideas – of personal freedom, the individual, and the uncertainty of truth – would become central to liberal thought.”
― Ian Dunt, How To Be A Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival

“The identity war provides no answers. It is the politics of division and resentment over mutual advancement and debate.”
― Ian Dunt, How To Be A Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival

“What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing – the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others,”
― Ian Dunt, How To Be A Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival

“The solution they invented was called the harm principle. It was extremely simple. ‘The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others,”
― Ian Dunt, How To Be A Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival