This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

Friends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me.

The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.