Top 46 Quotes & Sayings by Pim Fortuyn

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Pim Fortuyn

Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn, was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List in 2002.

I'm not anti-Muslim; I'm not anti-immigration.
My policies are multi-ethnic and certainly not racist.
Animal welfare must be a priority, and we need to switch to less industrial production methods. — © Pim Fortuyn
Animal welfare must be a priority, and we need to switch to less industrial production methods.
We have a lot of guests who are trying to take over the house and the owner of the house doesn't like it.
Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands.
We are already overcrowded. There's no more room, and we must shut the borders.
Moroccan boys never steal from Moroccans.
I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.
If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the U.K., you're labeled a racist.
Le Pen is a petit bourgeois nationalist.
The biggest problem is integrating people from countries with Islamic agrarian cultures. They don't share with us the core values of modernity and think quite differently about relationships between women and men and individual responsibility.
I say what I think, and I do what I say!
All those who are here can stay. I don't say send them home like he does. — © Pim Fortuyn
All those who are here can stay. I don't say send them home like he does.
We have a separation of state and church. The laws of the country are not subject to the Koran.
An imam should be able to say that homosexuals are worse than pigs. My only demand is that you mustn't incite violence.
There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.
This is a full country. I think 16 million Dutchmen are about enough.
This country is bursting.
When I become prime minister, I'm going to buy one of those Margaret Thatcher handbags, and I'll bang it on the table and demand my money back from the government for past bad services.
Le Pen is old; I'm young.
If Turkish or Moroccan boys misbehave here, it's up to us to re-educate them and, when necessary, to punish them.
Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.
I am appalled by Le Pen's anti-Semitic past and feelings. A man who says the Holocaust is no more than a footnote in history is beyond my comprehension.
I am proud that in the Netherlands I can come out for my homosexuality, and I'd like to keep it that way.
If I were living in France, I'd vote for Jacques Chirac, despite the fact that he can't seem to keep his hands out of the cash till.
If you allow immigrants into your country, then you're responsible for them.
Right-wing in Holland is to the Left of the Tories in England.
We should have no immigration at all for a certain time. Then we can look again.
I want to stop the influx of new immigrants. This way, we can give those who are already here the opportunity to fully integrate into our society.
The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.
What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them. — © Pim Fortuyn
What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.
The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop. Full is full. We're living on a small piece of land here.
In Holland, homosexuality is treated the same way as heterosexuality. In what Islamic country does that happen?
I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.
If you're successful, you must express a modest appearance.
Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.
Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.
How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut?
We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.
The Netherlands is not an immigration country. The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop.
Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam. — © Pim Fortuyn
Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.
For Muslims, as a homosexual, I am less than a pig.
I have traveled a lot in the world, and wherever Islam is in charge, it's just terrible.
If something happens to me, the government is co-responsible.
If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart.
I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-immigration; I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.
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