Matthew Collins > Quotes

“We had to hate the Irish more than any blacks. They were fighting back against our supposed oppression of them. At every opportunity, the Irish were to be attacked,”
― Matthew Collins, Hate: My Life in the British Far Right

“We wanted a body race war, we felt it was inevitable and we would have to be the ones controllling the streets when it happened. We weren't the kind of blokes who could cry on each other's shoulders over loves gone-astray or bitter person dissatisfactions. All of these friendships were built solely on our hatred and distrust of others. The class system, or what little I knew of it, was quite obviously separate to race. There were two ways of looking at it: downtrodden and ignored because we were either white or because we were also working class.”
― Matthew Collins, HATE: My Life In The British Far Right

“I've been convinced for years that the Labour Party were are errand boys for Russians to invade our country and make us submit to sodomy. Surely the BNP were the only people who could save the country from being bummed by some comrade from Moscow.
Most of my mad views were backed up by the Daily Mail (our family bible), and, the rare times I was allowed to peek into it, a copy of The Sun.”
― Matthew Collins, HATE: My Life In The British Far Right

“Nazis and libraries do not mix. They're not burning the contents, their throwing the occupants out of windows: it wasn't going to be a protest, it was going to be a hit!”
― Matthew Collins, HATE: My Life In The British Far Right

“How could I ever have doubted that the Holocaust - the systematic murder of millions of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and trade unionists - happened? Simply, because I needed to. If you wanted to (dis)believe something in it, eventually you will.”
― Matthew Collins, HATE: My Life In The British Far Right

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
― Matthew Collins, Personal Finance for Beginners - A Simple Guide to Take Control of Your Financial Situation

“The people of the East End have a marvellous tradition of fighting facism, but facism still always manifests itself in the East End because poverty exists at its heart.”
― Matthew Collins, HATE: My Life In The British Far Right

“An individual who is financially educated can tell the difference between financial choices that are beneficial and detrimental to his financial future.”
― Matthew Collins, Personal Finance for Beginners - A Simple Guide to Take Control of Your Financial Situation

“To make people believe that the Jews are evil, you must first convince them that they lie about the Holocaust.”
― Matthew Collins, HATE: My Life In The British Far Right

“School, and it's shite attitudes towards whatever or whoever I was, was the source of my frustration. They shunted my classes a little as I found myself falling headfirst into the comprehensive school abyss, Joining the educational subnormal in staring at walls for hours on end whilst being babysat whatever lesson I had been removed from. Black and Asian capitalise that undo that people went from being my neighbours and classmates to parasitical leeches I could barely bring myself to acknowledge joining the educational subnormal in staring at walls for hours on end whilst being babysat through whatever lesson I had been removed from. Black and Asian people went from being my neighbours and classmates to parasitical leeches I could barely bring myself to acknowledge. they were not worth my time. I was beginning to understand what the stickers and I newspapers had meant. I was beginning to understand that deep sense of frustration that these people were sealing my history and by birthright. Why couldn't they just fuck off where they truly belong? And their 'protectors', the teachers and civil servants with their bleeding Hearts and cheap, shit, French cars were little more than university-educated scum from the middle classes sent to suppress my freedom.”
― Matthew Collins, HATE: My Life In The British Far Right