#u

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#i #resistance #should #solidarity #suppose

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#existence #me #point #seemed #talking

you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can’t trust anyone anymore, because they’re all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before… ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#it-s-kind-of-a-funny-story #judgement #teenagers #truth #funny

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 great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#effect #generosity #great #great thing #had

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 Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#beings #books #every #holy #human

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 secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#argument #become #discussion #into #liberal

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