Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated than our own and that blindness, often caused by microscopic parasites that are themselves miracles of ingenuity, is one of the oldest and most tragic disorders known to man. And why award the superior eye (or in the case of cat or bat, also the ear) to the inferior species.
Christopher HitchensPeople know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.
Christopher HitchensThe people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
Christopher HitchensIf I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
Christopher HitchensI canโt hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated
Christopher Hitchens