Small Men on the Wrong Side of History Quotes

“Pretty much every aspect of human culture and the variation between us has a large genetic factor that makes equality of outcome impossible, something of which almost no public debate takes account.”
― Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism

“Politics comes down to who is on your side: if you read and see people repeatedly attacking your ethnic group for its privilege – especially people clearly more privileged than you – then you will side with whomever is against them, however terrible their economic policies, however venal, corrupt and just stupid their leaders. And if the opposition aren’t smart enough to understand that aspect of human psychology, they don’t deserve to win.”
― Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism

“Although diversity brings division, once it exists we should do our best to mitigate it and bring people together; and yet by doing so we encourage politicians to promote multiculturalism as a good in itself, so allowing interested parties both to lobby for more immigration and actively promote identity politics, so increasing the future likelihood of conflict.”
― Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism

“As the German economist Kristian Niemietz dryly commented, paraphrasing Voltaire’s quote about Prussia, Britain is not a state so much as a hospital service with a TV station attached.1”
― Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism

“It’s not because they are stupid, simply that forming an opinion is time-consuming and it makes more sense to subcontract it out.”
― Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism