The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.
Christopher HitchensTags: totalitarianism
To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical conscience, is to stand against those who try to incubate a Reformation in the Muslim world.
Christopher HitchensTags: religion islam reformation salman-rushdie 1994
It's the minute fanaticism and superiority of the Almanach that offends: the chilling and narrowing of the kinship tie into something denatured and artificial.
Christopher HitchensTags: royalty united-kingdom almanach-de-gotha
The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?
Christopher HitchensTags: morality chauvinism moral-equivalence
Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.
Christopher HitchensTags: united-states 1991 american-imperialism gulf-war
Every day one reads meretricious babble about 'globalization' and the abolition of frontiers, most of it amounting to little more than celebration of the worldwide availability of Wheel of Fortune.
Christopher HitchensTags: globalisation
A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A Memoir for an English newspaper. The experience was proving to be a degradation of the act of reading. Imagine, if you will, being strapped into a chair and made to listen to Liberace playing the piano for hour upon hour. Or imagine being fed chocolate dinner mints, like a hapless goose, until you are on the verge of explosion. Such was my lot.
Christopher HitchensTags: reading literary-criticism newspapers 1996 barbara-bush
The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics elections politics-of-the-united-states election-promises
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.
Christopher HitchensTags: death immortality reincarnation 1997
Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics united-states bill-clinton 1997 newt-gingrich politics-of-the-united-states triangulation-politics
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