Guardian Angel Quotes

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

“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 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

“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

“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