Christopher Hitchens Quotes

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for 'peace through strength' has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

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• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

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• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

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• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

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• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

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• As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.

  

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• My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

  

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• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

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• Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

  

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• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  

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• A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

  

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• I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am one with everyone within the reach of my voice. In this togetherness, we ask the divine intelligence to eradicate all negatives from our hearts, from our minds and from our actions. And so be it....ashe.

  

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• The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for 'peace through strength' has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Action
  • Peace