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“When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow them to fire at will, and they will hit anything that moves.”
― Nick Cohen, You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom

“Respect for religion is the opposite of religious tolerance, because it allows the intolerant to impose their will on others.”
― Nick Cohen, You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom

“When it comes to anti-fascism in most of Western Europe, there would appear for now to be a supply-and-demand problem: the demand for fascists vastly outstrips the actual supply.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“Europeans have been deflating the language of anti-fascism ahead of a time when they might need it.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“The further Fascism receded into history and the fewer visible fascists there were on display, the more self-proclaimed anti-fascists needed fascism to retain any semblance of political virtue or purpose. It proved politically useful to describe as fascist people who were not Fascists , just as it proved politically useful to describe as racist people who were not racists.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“Only Europeans and their descendants remember guilt. So only Europeans and their descendants have continuously to atone for it.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam