#ss

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#any #anymore #ask #being #could

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cannot #capable #first #forget #i

It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise. ↗

— Morris Hite

#advertise #advertising #advertising agency #agency #clients

'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

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#desserts #fine #good #got #harm

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#arm #attitude #clinic #feel #feels

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't. ↗

— Morris Hite

#bother #could #face-to-face #his #mass

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#any #intention #purpose #senseless #useless

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#demoralize #enemy #future #sabotage #surprise

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice. ↗