Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect. Christopher Hitchens More Quotes by Christopher Hitchens More Quotes From Christopher Hitchens 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 When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. Christopher Hitchens fighting poison attitude Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious. Christopher Hitchens callous capricious evolution Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely. Christopher Hitchens iraq als war It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.) Christopher Hitchens bottles writing wind I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - were I'm sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don't think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don't think it has been established that any lies were told. Christopher Hitchens iraq lying thinking [Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore. Christopher Hitchens bosnia iraq sorry I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust. Christopher Hitchens constitution abuse years I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. Christopher Hitchens indicators implied guarantees Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth Christopher Hitchens scum-of-the-earth fighting believe The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister. Christopher Hitchens born reading thinking Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. Christopher Hitchens cancer long people No child's behind left. Christopher Hitchens behinds children religion No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted. Christopher Hitchens moral persons religion Ordinary morality is innate in my view. Christopher Hitchens ethics views ordinary I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. Christopher Hitchens enough war thinking This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for? Christopher Hitchens taxi cases art Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power. Christopher Hitchens arms force faces If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka . Christopher Hitchens covering trying thinking I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country. Christopher Hitchens born felt country
