Hereโs someone who says thereโs no such thing, itโs all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Donโt take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think youโre bound to be okay, because youโre in the safely moral majority.
Christopher HitchensMargaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.
Christopher Hitchens[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.
Christopher HitchensName one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.
Christopher HitchensNorth Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.
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