Christopher Hitchens

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#antiwar #british #generally #interests #involved

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#better #comes #cynicism #down #hard

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#argument #become #discussion #into #liberal

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#actions #control #enemy #head #inside

The violence in the Bible is appalling. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bible #violence

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#because #bored #boring #call #days

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#annoys #argument #kinds #lazy #me

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#consider #creation #good #hell #image

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bothers #cosmos #dumb #me #question