Christopher Hitchens Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.”

“A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.”

“High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.”

“Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.”

“The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.”

“Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.”

“Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.”

“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.”

“Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.”

“Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'”