Quotes About Hitchens

Today I want to puke when I hear the word "radical" applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.)

For a fuller account of the revelations of the Moscow archives, and their detailed vindication of Orwell, see my Introduction to Orwell in Spain (Penguin, 2001).

he none the less argued that 'an avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty' because it can accustom a nation 'to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws'.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

He would appear never to have diluted his opinions in the hope of seeing his byline disseminated to the paying customers; this alone is a clue to why he still matters.

It may be that... you recognize something of yourself in these instances... a disposition to resistance... against arbitrary authority or witless mass opinion

The Bible commands us to love our enemies. I love the Pope very much.

Prayers: A petition that the laws of nature be suspended in favour of the petitioner; himself confessedly unworthy.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.