Christopher Hitchens
Christopher HitchensThe Academic is today, no longer the unworldly innocuous scholar wrapped up in the arcane, but is instead, a wised-up, ambitious person, more interested in deals and endowments, and the invention of lucrative new subdisciplines.
Agnosticism is used as a halfway house by those who cannot make a profession of faith but are unwilling to repudiate either religion or God absolutely.
America is miraculously founded on a document as a work in progress that can be tested by each generation.
The America is a place which, schooled in the national dream of promise and abundance and opportunity, it's citizens are condemned to experience life as a disappointment and to wonder if the fault is in themselves or in their stars that they are perpetual underlings.
Animal rights is often accused of sentimentalism, but in point of fact, it is actually quite rare to find a humanitarian who is indifferent to animals and surprisingly common to find that those who belittle animal rights are the same ones who find the pain of humans easy to bear.
Antisemitism is not a mere prejudice like any other regional hatred. It, unlike the others, involves the accusation of trying to bring off a secret world government based on the occult control of finance.
Antisemitism is an ideology that involves the paradox whereby great power is attributed to the powerless.
The Argument's test is not its ability to convert or to persuade. It lies in its capacity to refine or to redefine the positions of the other side.
Argument is best conducted following this cardinal rule; that one be able to give a proper account of the opposing position(s).
Atheism is not based on any claim that it can prove there is no deity. it places the burden on the faithful, who do after all make very large claims for themselves and their religions.
Atheism is related to the notion that we have just one life to live and is the only sure way to regard all our fellow creatures as brothers and sisters.
Atheism does not offer any right to go around looking superior. it is merely the throwing off the infancy of the species.
Atheism's strange logic is captured in the joke: 'I'm an atheist' 'I see, protestant or catholic atheist''.
Atheism is the idea that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.
Atheism is the most rational position on the grounds that, since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, it is most reasonable to conclude that they are all wrong.
The Award is today an unstoppably inflating business which exists to reward sponsors, to pacify egos, to generate sales, and to puff reputations.
The Cat is an animal that, in contrast to the dog (which responds to your providing him with food, water, shelter and affection by drawing the conclusion that you are a God), looks at the same circumstances and draws the conclusion that he himself is a God.
