Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all. Christopher Hitchens More Quotes by Christopher Hitchens More Quotes From Christopher Hitchens We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'. Christopher Hitchens wall atheist racism Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence. Christopher Hitchens exceptional evidence claims If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. Christopher Hitchens torture ifs doe [E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. Christopher Hitchens atheist motivational inspirational Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults. Christopher Hitchens santa adults jesus The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity. Christopher Hitchens cancer stupidity war You have to choose your future regrets. Christopher Hitchens your-future regret Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century. Christopher Hitchens successful mother jobs Cheap booze is a false economy. Christopher Hitchens booze economy alcohol One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. Christopher Hitchens boring problem dull In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me. Christopher Hitchens lovely light giving I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me. Christopher Hitchens atheism religious trying It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. Christopher Hitchens eye taste matter In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed. Christopher Hitchens ironic sunset style Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact. Christopher Hitchens writing attention facts I'm terrified of losing my voice. Christopher Hitchens terrified voice losing Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate. Christopher Hitchens punishment fierce desire it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists Christopher Hitchens people interesting religion It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question. Christopher Hitchens perfectly-normal mind people The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute. Christopher Hitchens champion scotch party
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