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

Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Book:Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

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Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

This book explores the influence of writers on public opinion and legislation, examining how their works contribute to societal change and cultural development. 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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“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz.”

Way Movement Tests Conservative Authenticity Tendencies Division Supporter

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.”

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

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

“There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.”

People Reason Enough Helping No Reason New Orleans Baghdad

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God's on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.”

People Giving Would Be Sides Views Permission Your Side Without God Satanic

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.”

Ideas Suffering Succeed Victim Including Finished Graves Remembered Curse Tribes Plague Moses Advent Massacres Ghastly Progeny Prince Of Peace

Book:God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Source: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.”

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

“That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority.”

Self All Things Majority

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

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