I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
Christopher HitchensThe people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
Christopher HitchensI had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?
Christopher HitchensThe person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
Christopher HitchensMy father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Christopher Hitchens[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish.
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