Notable Quotes
· CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS ·
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
“What is essential is to suddenly make a move totally unexpected by the opponent, pick up on the advantage of fright, and…
“There is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here…
“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this…
“I’ve been doing it for 22 years now, or whatever,” Stapleton reflects, “and no amount of adulation would change the music. It’s never worried me. I’m really happy in my life, I’ve got my goats, my lovely family, I’ve got everything that anybody could really want and I’ve also got my music. I’m a happy…
“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
“The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening…
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.” (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
“As a natural-born Satanist, I’m joyfully free of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic bias against non-human animals, and so have never questioned that what I…