What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens More Quotes by Christopher Hitchens More Quotes From Christopher Hitchens It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals of genocidal weaponry, true. Christopher Hitchens regimes hussein thinking It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination. Christopher Hitchens racist race judging There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves. Christopher Hitchens majority guy personality Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one. Christopher Hitchens leaving country promise Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing. Christopher Hitchens mad evil thinking No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine Christopher Hitchens gulags gone way Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties. Christopher Hitchens redemption surrender religion My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it. Christopher Hitchens life-is missing world Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us. Christopher Hitchens fleeting kind life-is The finest fury is the most controlled. Christopher Hitchens fury controlled finest Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world? Christopher Hitchens real heaven jesus Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence. Christopher Hitchens existence adults talking [I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved. Christopher Hitchens citizens careers culture Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt. Christopher Hitchens doubt people way I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But I think it's very important to keep that under control and not to hand it over to be exploited by priests and shamans and rabbis and other riffraff. Christopher Hitchens important hands thinking I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious. Christopher Hitchens tasks desire thinking So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it's the most nauseating spectacle. Christopher Hitchens believe america thinking I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition. Christopher Hitchens dimensions world thinking I don't say things like "the grace of God." All that's white noise to me, not because I'm an intellectual. For many people, it's gibberish. Likewise, the idea that the Koran was dictated by an archaic illiterate is a fantasy. Christopher Hitchens white people ideas Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's made by the anti-war movement between being over there and over here was exposed for all to see as an illusion. Although a number of people, a large amount of people still share in it. In other words, when I've been in Iraq or Afghanistan, I've probably been safer because I can carry a weapon if I have to, than my wife and daughter are living in Washington. Christopher Hitchens iraq daughter war
