"It cannot be long before Britain has its first 24-year-old granny. When you abolish husbands and fathers, that is what you get. As the rules of civilised life are swept away and the only people interested in getting married are lesbian clergywomen, there will soon be thousands of them. And for every youthful grandmother, there will be at least one feral, abandoned male, stalking the streets. Britain's neglected poor, who once brought up their children in family homes with rules, are becoming a primitive tribe, stripped of the laws of civilisation and sinking into barbarism. The same barbarism, by the way, is mirrored among the loud and loutish rich."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Anti-war activistsConservatives from the United KingdomJournalists from EnglandColumnists from EnglandBloggers
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
"What next in Britain's baby factory? A granny of 24?", The Mail on Sunday (29 May 2005)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Hitchens
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Peter Hitchens
Peter Jonathan Hitchens (born 28 October 1951) is an English conservative author, broadcaster, journalist, and commentator. He writes for The Mail on Sunday and was a foreign correspondent reporting from both Moscow and Washington, D.C.
56 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Peter Hitchens →
Related Quotes
"In 1965, the people of Britain may have been poorer, smaller, shabbier, dirtier, colder, narrower, more set in their …"
"A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation."
"In an incredibly short time, we have been turned into a nation without heroes, without pride in our past or knowledge…"
"Smoking and buggery can both kill you, by exposing you to diseases you would not otherwise get. If homosexual acts we…"
"To anyone brought up when English literature, scripture, liturgy, poetry and hymns were still taught and learned, it …"
"A time traveller from Fifties Britain would probably die of shock within two hours of arriving in modernised Blairlan…"
"There is a strong moral case for strict border controls and severe limits on immigration. A country is the only unit …"
"Frankly, I could carve a better opposition party out of a banana than the Tories."
"We're not close. We're different people, we have different lives, we have entirely different pleasures, we live in di…"
"To complain that a European Union official is a federalist, is like complaining that a bicycle has handlebars. That's…"