Top 200 Quotes & Sayings by Geert Wilders
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
Last updated on September 14, 2024.
Freedom is the source of human creativity and development.
I hate consensus. I like confrontation.
People hate me, or they love me. There's nothing in between. There is no gray area.
It's not about left and right, it's about common people and their issues.
My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements.
Nexit is the best thing that can happen to us.
We want to decide how we control our borders, our money, our economy, our currency.
Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let alone contribute to a solution.
We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands.
I want the fascist Qur'an banned.
Stating my views on Islam has brought me to court on charges of 'group insult' and incitement to racial hatred. I am being tried for voicing opinions that I - and my constituents - consider to be the truth. I am being tried for challenging the views that the ruling establishment wants to impose on us as the truth.
Democracy on a supranational level is simply impossible. In order to have democracy, there needs to be a nation.
It's not my intention to have anything at all to do with violence.
I can't even go on a spontaneous walk or to a restaurant without armored cars and police, but there is no alternative.
Not all are scum, but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who makes the streets unsafe.
Unfortunately, there is a tendency among political elites to distrust the opinions of ordinary people. They are perceived to base their views on dark instincts and unjustified fears, rather than on rational choices. European voters, however, are highly educated, and it is ridiculous to suppose they can be easily fooled or manipulated.
We'll never join up with the Fascists and Mussolinis of Italy.
Islam is something we can't afford any more.
We should be tolerant to people who are tolerant to us. We should be intolerant to people who are intolerant to us.
While there are many moderate Muslims, Islam's political ideology is radical and has global ambitions.
We must precisely do what the terrorists prevent us to do.
If one in four Dutch people saying they will vote for my party, it's ridiculous to say we're divisive or extreme.
The Dutch are still allowed to speak critically about Islam, and resistance against Islamization is not a crime.
There is a perfectly good alternative to the European Union - it is called the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960. Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein are members. E.F.T.A. stands for friendship and cooperation through free trade.
I'm very thankful to live in a country where the government provides my protection - many police and armored cars and safe houses and things like that.
The European Union cannot be compared to the United States. America is a nation, but Europe is not. Europe is a continent of many different nations with their own identities, traditions and languages. Robbing them of their national democracies does not create a European democracy - it destroys democracy in Europe.
Wake up, Christians of Tennessee. Islam is at your gate. Do not make the mistake which Europe made. Do not allow Islam to gain a foothold here.
Mass immigration changes countries beyond recognition. Ordinary people are well aware of that.
We are definitely not racists; we don't care about people's skin color.
I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.
Without sovereignty, a nation cannot exist. Without borders, it can't be defined or protected.
I am not a consensus politician... This is something that is really very un-Dutch.
I believe we have been too tolerant of the intolerant. We should learn to become intolerant of the intolerant.
Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd.
We should wake up and tell ourselves: You're not a xenophobe, you're not a racist, you're not a crazy guy if you say, 'My culture is better than yours.'
I can't set one foot out of my house or anywhere in the world without security.
People and nations wither away without the freedom to question what is presented to them as the truth.
I make a clear distinction between the people and the ideology, between Muslims and Islam, recognizing that there are many moderate Muslims.
We should not import a retarded political Islamic society into our country.
We want the Netherlands to leave the E.U., join EFTA and, like Switzerland, negotiate bilateral trade agreements with the E.U. and the rest of the world.
If I stop or moderate my voice, people who use or threaten violence against democracies would win. I will never let them win.
Why can't you ask people if they want more or fewer Germans or Belgians or Moroccans?
We want to make our own Netherlands, to close our borders and to keep all that money that we give to the foreigners, there is billions, to Africa for development, to Brussels, to Greece, to asylum seekers in the Netherlands, we will stop that and give all that money to the Dutch people living in the Netherlands.
I don't want to get rid of the typical Dutch tolerance.
Cultural relativism has made it so people don't know who they are anymore.
I am not ashamed to say that our culture is far better than the Islamic culture, which is a culture of barbarism.
Festering political problems do not go away simply because they are kept in a dark corner.
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but almost all terrorists are Muslims.
The Netherlands has been too tolerant to intolerant people for too long.
I'm very afraid of being linked with the wrong, rightist, Fascist groups.
Islam is the Trojan Horse in Europe.
In referendums in 2005, the Dutch and the French electorates rejected the European Constitution, which aimed to turn the E.U. into a genuine state. But Brussels refused to take no for an answer. It went ahead with its plans for a constitutional treaty, notwithstanding the people's opposition. Brussels thinks it knows better than the people.
I have said what millions of people think and find. It is a travesty that I have to defend myself in court for this.
I don't believe in political self-censorship.
Dutch values are based on Christianity, on Judaism, on humanism.
Europe is my home, Europe is my continent. Europe is where we live. The European Union is a political bureaucratic organization that took away our identity and our national sovereignty. So, I would get rid of the European Union and be a nation-state again.
Citizens should never allow themselves to be silenced.
On Islam, it is true that I am tough. Perhaps tougher than I should be if my only aim was to get votes.
I believe that politicians have a public trust to further debates about important issues. I firmly believe that every public debate holds the prospect of enlightenment.
Islam and freedom are not compatible.
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