People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.
Christopher HitchensI leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do
Christopher HitchensThe politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the โwarโ against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.
Christopher HitchensI had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?
Christopher Hitchens