You can walk around this culture now, as a proud supporter of the so called anti-war movement and it's made up of a lot of people I used to know … I'd like for them to be asked more often than they are, if your advice had been taken over the last 15 or so years; Slobodan Milosevic would still be the dictator of not just Serbia but also of a cleansed and ruined Bosnia and Kosovo. Saddam Hussein would still be the owner of Kuwait as well as Iraq, he would of nearly have doubled his holding of the worlds oil. The Taliban would still be in charge of Afghanistan. Don't you feel a little reproach to your so called high principle anti-war policy? Would that really have led to less violence, less cruelty?
Christopher HitchensTags: war anti-war anti-war-movement
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
Christopher HitchensFor the party of order, disorder has always had its uses
Christopher HitchensFor the party of order, disorder has always had its uses.
Christopher HitchensAllow 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 HitchensAn individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence
Christopher HitchensIt 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 HitchensThe most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.
Christopher HitchensI want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.
Christopher HitchensTags: travel
Everyone has a little book in them, and in most cases, that is where it should stay.
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