If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. Christopher Hitchens More Quotes by Christopher Hitchens More Quotes From Christopher Hitchens I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. Christopher Hitchens public-opiniondoebelieve Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power? Christopher Hitchens achieveresponsibilitydoe The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped. Christopher Hitchens tollsenough I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. Christopher Hitchens catholicchurchdoe I vote and I do jury duty. Christopher Hitchens jury-dutyvoteduty I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. Christopher Hitchens editorspublishersstuff There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad. Christopher Hitchens baghdadnew-orleanspeople There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz. Christopher Hitchens divisiontestsmovement [Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion. Christopher Hitchens saddamregimeshussein Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion. Christopher Hitchens moralityreligion A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society. Christopher Hitchens stomachchapsgiving People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. Christopher Hitchens agepeoplethinking Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. Christopher Hitchens technologystarswar I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner. Christopher Hitchens selfwritingthinking No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense. Christopher Hitchens governmentprinciplesself Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. Christopher Hitchens marsalarmsinvasion I think the materialist conception of history is valid. Christopher Hitchens conceptionthinking There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by Hobbesian yahoos of the right. Among the former, one sees the upholding of the view that a gentleman's business and property are his own, and none of the government's. Among the latter, a distaste for democracy, for taxation, and for the need to consult others about the planet. Christopher Hitchens gentlemangovernmentviews I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth. Christopher Hitchens strategicdepthinteresting Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. Christopher Hitchens compulsoryknowsschool
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