Christopher Hitchens quotes - page 4

There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz. (Christopher Hitchens)
Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power. View quote
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Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth. View quote
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Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise! View quote
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If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is. View quote
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Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens. View quote
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Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century. View quote
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. View quote
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The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. View quote
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Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas. View quote
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There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad. (Christopher Hitchens)
The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process?" View quote
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I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - were I'm sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don't think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don't think it has been established that any lies were told. View quote
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Humans should not worship other humans at all, but if they must do so it is better that the worshipped ones do not occupy any positions of political power. View quote
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We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being. View quote
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Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone (Michael Moore) who actually embodies all of those qualities. View quote
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If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka. View quote
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My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass. View quote
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Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated. View quote
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The four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobsters, anal sex and picnics. View quote
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You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it. (Christopher Hitchens)
We had enough of people who think like you, that they know what God wants and that they've got god on their side. That they can tell us what to do or what to think in this way. View quote
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She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director. View quote
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I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book. View quote
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It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination. View quote
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