Identity Crisis Quotes

“Don’t you understand? We’re fighting an election here and the first rule is you can say anything you like, then deny you said it, then say it again.”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“We prefer “survivor”.’ ‘But this particular woman is dead,’ Matlock pointed out. ‘Yes.’ ‘So “survivor” isn’t really an appropriate term.’ ‘I’m aware of that. What we need is a new term for survivors of assault who died.”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“I threaten to kill lots of people. But it doesn’t actually mean that in a tweet.’
‘Mean what?’
‘Mean that you actually want to kill them. It’s more like “Oh, I disagree with you. Maybe you should think things through more”, that sort of thing.”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“Let’s prove that humanity is basically made up of nasty, spiteful, self-interested, mean-spirited CUNTS. Whatever their gender or their precious fucking sexuality, they’re all cunts. We’re all cunts. Let’s get out there and shatter the fucking rainbow!”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“Toby was rendered momentarily speechless. Was the minister out of his mind? Was this man seriously suggesting that political debate should return to the days of actual discussion of the issues? Was he literally raving tonto?”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“Her brave crusade was, put simply, to “woke” up the past. She did not simply wish to consign sexism to history. She wanted to remove sexism from history.”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“Julian and his team of copy-writers had noted that the phrase ‘Lest we forget’ had so far been reserved for fallen soldiers. In minutes they had created a viral post accusing ‘crazed trans multi-cultural zealots’ of claiming that a dead transsexual was as much an English hero as the fighter pilots who had died during the Battle of Britain. Malika’s algorithms then swiftly sent the message to the people most likely to be annoyed by it.”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“Britain’s most talked-about and much-loved TV show was now linked irrevocably with the enablement of sexual abuse. Whether people agreed with that view or not was irrelevant.”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“I want to convict Samuel Pepys in a court of law,’ Cressida said, ‘and I want that court to impose an appropriate, if theoretical, prison sentence on him.”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“I thought we’d done with that. Who’s the celebrity this time?’ ‘Samuel Pepys.”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“Matlock knew he should understand what that meant. He knew he should be able to work out what ‘straight’ meant when referring to a woman who was biologically male. He took a guess.”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“He had his own YouTube channel and a track available on iTunes. That sort of life profile carries a lot of cultural capital in a room full of middle-class white people in a permanent state of agony over their privilege.”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“She wondered if perhaps it was something to do with marking their territory. Like dripping on the floor.”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis