I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But I think it's very important to keep that under control and not to hand it over to be exploited by priests and shamans and rabbis and other riffraff.
Christopher HitchensHeroยญism breaks its heart, and ideยญalยญism its back, on the intranยญsiยญgence of the credยญuยญlous and the mediocre, manipยญuยญlated by the cynยญiยญcal and the corrupt.
Christopher HitchensAllow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.
Christopher HitchensIn modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.
Christopher HitchensIf anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.
Christopher Hitchens