Top 10 Quotes by Melanie Phillips

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, materialism would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.

Melanie Phillips

Atheist, Desire, World

Melanie Phillips (2013). “The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power”, p.79, Encounter Books

Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.

Melanie Phillips

Army, Opportunity, Waiting

"Britain Ignores the Angry Muslims Within at Its Peril". The Sunday Times, November 04, 2001.

The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church is no longer able to assuage. So a book which suggests that there is a spiritual significance to the Christian story but that this has been suppressed by the church undoubtedly appeals to those who are anxious to square this circle.

Melanie Phillips

Christian, Spiritual, Book

Climate ... models bear about as much relation to reality as astrology.

Melanie Phillips

Reality, Astrology, Climate

For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement of human potential through virtuous practice. The neo-cons' crucial insight is that public signals through law, custom and tradition are the key to getting people to behave well. And that is a Jewish insight.

Melanie Phillips

Keys, Law, Practice

They are fuelled by an ideology that itself is non-negotiable and forms a continuum that links peaceful, law-abiding but nevertheless intensely ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other.

Melanie Phillips

Law, Peaceful, Abiding

"The Multicultural Menace, Anti-semitism and Me". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2006.

No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.

Melanie Phillips

Justice, Veils, Behinds

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries - seems to have swallowed the distortions about domestic violence promoted by extreme, manhating feminism through the vehicle of deeply dodgy 'research'.

Melanie Phillips

Lying, Hate, Men

"Demenised!". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 13, 2003.