The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are willing to sacrifice even the slight cranial capacity with which evolution has equipped us.
Christopher HitchensTags: stupidity religion atheism evolution 1997
You can't have occupation and human rights.
Christopher HitchensTags: torture human-rights israel 1997 israeli-palestinian-conflict israeli-occupied-territories military-occupation
The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics corruption bipartisanship
You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics guilt corruption
There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.
Christopher HitchensTags: united-states celebrity notoriety 1989 andy-warhol
If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.
Christopher HitchensTags: religion atheism opium-of-the-people 1996 cornel-west louis-farrakhan
Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)
Christopher HitchensTags: children censorship insincerity politicians sentimentality baby-kissing moral-blackmail
The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.
Christopher HitchensTags: relationships homosexuality coming-out wh-auden chester-kallman the-closet
Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics poetry ts-eliot anthony-julius
Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.
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