#red

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #control #disorder #even #fast

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#approach #considered #culture #i #may

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#another #apparently #bad #charge #credit

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 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

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#apart #class #culture #ethnic #fact

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#cannot #deal #father #go #great

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#conquered #enemy #into #overcome #prison

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction. ↗

— Dee Hock

#become #clarity #code #common #common way

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require. ↗

— Dee Hock

#away #behavior #best #conditions #create