Melanie Phillips > Quotes

“Islamophobia,’ the thought-crime that seeks to suppress legitimate criticism of Islam and demonise those who would tell the truth about Islamist aggression.”
― Melanie Phillips, Londonistan: Britain's Terror State from Within

“Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.”
― Melanie Phillips, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power

“Astoundingly, truth, evidence and reason had become right-wing concepts.”
― Melanie Phillips, Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity

“According to Imam Abu Baseer, one of the leading religious supporters of al Qaeda: One of the goals of immigration is the revival of the duty of jihad and enforcement of their power over the infidels. Immigration and jihad go together. One is the consequence of the other and dependent upon it. The continuance of the one is dependent upon the continuance of the other.2”
― Melanie Phillips, Londonistan: Britain's Terror State from Within

“To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it seems that law-law is always better than war-war. This legal supremacism has now developed into an industry that threatens to usurp the democratic process itself. Instead of being governed by the rule of law, we increasingly have rule by lawyers. Instead of being the vehicle to convey a nation’s values, law has increasingly become a moral end in itself.”
― Melanie Phillips, Londonistan: Britain's Terror State from Within

“In the multicultural classroom, every culture appears to be taught except Britain’s indigenous one. Concern not to offend minority sensibilities has reached the risible point where piggy banks have been banished from British banks in case Muslims might be offended.18”
― Melanie Phillips, Londonistan: Britain's Terror State from Within

“The attempt to establish this separate Muslim identity is growing more and more intense, with persistent pressure for official recognition of Islamic family law, the rise of a de facto parallel Islamic legal system not recognised by the state, demands for highly politicised Islamic dress codes, prayer meetings or halal food to be provided by schools and other institutions, and so on. No other minority attempts to impose its values on the host society like this. Behind it lies the premise that Islamic values trump British ones,”
― Melanie Phillips, Londonistan: Britain's Terror State from Within

“My assailants had immediately understood something I did not myself at the time understand: that the destruction of the traditional family had as its real target the destruction of Biblical morality. I thought I was merely standing up for evidence, duty and the protection of the vulnerable. But they understood that the banner behind which I was actually marching was the Biblical moral law which put chains on people’s appetites.”
― Melanie Phillips, Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity

“A church that can no longer distinguish the truth from a lie no longer believes that its own message is true.”
― Melanie Phillips, Londonistan

“That’s because the banner behind which they march is not altruism. It is narcissism. But it took me a very long time fully to grasp this.”
― Melanie Phillips, Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity

“Britain has become a decadent society, weakened by alarming tendencies towards social and cultural suicide. Turning upon itself, it has progressively attacked or undermined the values, laws and traditions that make it a nation, creating a space that in turn has been exploited by radical Islamism.”
― Melanie Phillips, Londonistan: Britain's Terror State from Within

“Surely, though, the essence of being progressive was to minimize harm and protect the most vulnerable? Yet this was simply tossed aside by left-wingers, who elevated their own desires into rights that trumped the emotional, physical and intellectual well-being of their children – and then berated as heartless reactionaries those who criticized them!”
― Melanie Phillips, Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity

“A culture can pull back from the brink of collapse if it tears off its suicidal blinders in time. This can still be achieved, but it requires a recognition above all of the paradox that so many fail to understand. This is that freedom only exists within clear boundaries, and that preserving the values of western civilization requires a robust reassertion of the Judeo-Christian principles on which its foundations rest. And that requires moral, political and religious leadership of the highest order, not to mention buckets of courage.”
― Melanie Phillips, Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity

“A dedication to irrationality grows more difficult to renounce with each reiteration of unreason, for the deluded must increasingly face the shame not only of his folly but of the misery it begets. As the tally grows, the likelihood of self-correction diminishes; and the committed one-worlder, now chained to his oars, must insulate himself against both reality and countervailing opinion. He does so handily by demonizing those trying to restore him to sanity.”
― Melanie Phillips, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power

“The self-styled progressives on the British left, for whom human rights have replaced Christianity as the religion for a godless society, have formed a jaw-dropping axis with militant, fundamentalist Islamism. These two revolutionary camps have put their very sizeable differences to one side so that each can use the other to advance their goal, which is the destruction of Western society and its foundation values.”
― Melanie Phillips, Londonistan

“Darwinism, meanwhile, is not so much science as materialism applied to biology. The belief that Creation was false did not derive from Darwinism. Darwinism derived from the belief that Creation was false. In trying to fit the natural world to a prior belief, and claiming to be the ultimate explanation of the origin of life, it overreaches and therefore fails to adhere to its own scientific principles.”
― Melanie Phillips, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power

“Well, the New Religion, as Ms. Phillips teaches, is “Secular Humanism,” which, although it lacks logically consistent precepts, does contain innumerable sanctions and taboos. Of these latter, the most observed is loud and clear: do not tell the truth.”
― Melanie Phillips, The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power