Christopher Hitchens

I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#isolationism #middle-east #noninterventionism #respect

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#camelot #character #gore-vidal #kennedy-family #united-states

Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#wit #intelligence

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#men

In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#birth-rate #family #socioeconomic-failure #socioeconomics #standard-of-living

Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#leon-trotsky #marxism #trotskyism #love

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#mysticism #tautology #love

Si me convierto será porque es preferible que muera un creyente a que lo haga un ateo. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death-and-dying #religion #death

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#god #intelligent-design #religion #design

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#vanity #religion