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“This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?”

Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Book:And Yet...: Essays

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And Yet...: Essays

This book is a compilation of thoughtful essays that delve into diverse subjects, offering readers a rich tapestry of perspectives and insights. more

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens was an English-American author, journalist, and social critic. He was known for his sharp wit and controversial views, particularly on religion and politics. Hitchens was a prominent figure in the public discourse of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. more

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“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.”

Thinking Humans Doe Sometimes Facts Evil Liberty Christianity Written Atheism Conditions Intellectual Mad Islam Word Of God Indispensable Judaism Contradictory Realisation

Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.'”

Ifs Men Said Shows Kids Sacrifice He Man Prove Devotion Admire God Love Guts Devotion To God

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.”

Historian Fascism Fascists

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ?”

Speak Process Ready Dialogue Secretary Editorials Availability Idiom Deference Vernacular Serfs

Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.”

Country Culture Hurt Cry Brave Radical Reactionaries Fetish Irrelevance

Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“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.”

Needs Reason Government Views Principles Democracy Planets Property Libertarian Profession Former Gentleman Latter Affected Taxation Anarchist Distaste

Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.”

States Political Religious Guarantees Paradox Secular Elegant Simplest Pluralism Pluralism Is

Book:Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

Source: Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

“All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about.”

Knows Book Facts Talking Effects Excitement Usual

Book:Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

Source: Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

“[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion.”

Ifs Regimes Saddam Hussein Verge

Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.”

Knows War Sides Church Army Catholic Republic Spain Invasion Catholic Church Mercenary Franco

Author:Christopher Hitchens