#them

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#happy #i #life #most #my life

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

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

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cats #compelled #conclusion #dogs #draw

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 doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#averted #doom #flowing #nation #only

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#eternal #fight #live #struggle #them

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#because #characters #even #kind #leeway

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#blind #cannot #eye #eyes #given

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#believe #eloquent #hardly #learned #many