Anthony Daniels - Political Quotes

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If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television, then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths—young men principally, of course—to our way of life.

Anthony Daniels

Political abstractions can disguise or change the meaning of the most elementary realities.

Anthony Daniels

When the cold war ended, I thought, as no doubt did many others, that the age of ideology was over. Again like many others, I underestimated man's need for transcendence, which, in the absence of religion or high culture, he is most likely to find in a political or social cause.

Anthony Daniels

The appeal of political correctness is that it attempts to change men's souls by altering how they speak. If one sufficiently reforms language, certain thoughts become unthinkable, and the world moves in the approved direction.

Anthony Daniels

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

Anthony Daniels