Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the ยญextreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.
Christopher HitchensI do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.
Christopher HitchensIn ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.
Christopher HitchensAt Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.
Christopher HitchensI don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position.
Christopher Hitchens