Quotes by Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

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It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expressi — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as hig — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those wh — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anythi — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
The finest fury is the most controlled. — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also r — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futil — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared. — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell. — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive. — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States. — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays