#par

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#eruption #i #internationalism #last #marxist

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#children #cycle #feminist #floor #get

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#alarm #both #counterparts #his #invasion

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #cause #condition #forever #go

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

'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

Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time. ↗

— Morris Hite

#american #any #anybody #challenge #done

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#extremely #heaven #hell #life #make

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#dog #enjoy #him #merely #oneself