The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.
Christopher HitchensBenito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact of 1929. Under the terms of this deal, Catholicism became the only recognized religion in Italy, with monopoly powers over matters such as birth, marriage, death, and education, and in return urged its followers to vote for Mussolini's party. Pope Pius XI described II Duce (โthe leaderโ) as โa man sent by providence.โ
Christopher HitchensRonald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
Christopher HitchensNot many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
Christopher HitchensReligion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
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