Mick Hume > Quotes

“To say that you believe in free speech 'but' is not simply to qualify your support, but to dissolve it altogether. Free speech is not something you can sort-of believe in on a scale of 1 to 10.”
― Mick Hume, Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?

“There is no right not to be offended.”
― Mick Hume, Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?

“Question everything - ban nothing”
― Mick Hume, Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?

“Twitter, far from fostering debate and broadening minds, has turned us into a hive of scolds. Angry mobs wait on the sidelines to strike and then bask in the glow of their moral superiority.”
― Mick Hume

“Safe-space' policies...treat adult students like delicate flowers and words and images as if they were automatic weapons”
― Mick Hume, Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?

“As James Heartfield, author of The European Union and the End of Politics, noted, to follow such events is to ‘Step through the looking glass into the EU-world where the rule of the people is dictatorial, but the rule of unelected experts is democracy.’5 The”
― Mick Hume, Revolting!: How the Establishment are Undermining Democracy and What They’re Afraid Of

“In a real democracy, what matters is not just the outcome but the way that citizens participate in a debate about the future. That participation is what enables us to take meaningful moral responsibility for our actions, and develop the spirit of freedom that keeps public life healthy. The problems really begin, not when democracy goes ‘too far’, but when the people are taken for granted or ignored. In”
― Mick Hume, Revolting!: How the Establishment are Undermining Democracy and What They’re Afraid Of

“In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of régime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.’ – George Orwell, Politics”
― Mick Hume, Revolting!: How the Establishment are Undermining Democracy and What They’re Afraid Of

“we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.’38”
― Mick Hume, Revolting!: How the Establishment are Undermining Democracy and What They’re Afraid Of

“Expertise in an area is not the same thing as infallibility.”
― Mick Hume, Revolting!: How the Establishment are Undermining Democracy and What They’re Afraid Of

“Or as George Orwell has it, in his proposed 1945 preface to Animal Farm, entitled ‘Freedom of the Press’: ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’42 In”
― Mick Hume, Revolting!: How the Establishment are Undermining Democracy and What They’re Afraid Of

“Nous Sommes Voltaire”
― Mick Hume, Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?