If 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 HitchensI have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
Christopher HitchensFor me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.
Christopher HitchensThe press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.
Christopher HitchensDistrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.
Christopher Hitchens